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It's no secret that fun is important to American college students, but it is unusual for scholars to pay attention to how undergraduates represent and reflect on their partying. Linguist and anthropologist Chaise LaDousa explores the visual manifestations of collegiate fun in a Midwestern college town where house signs on off-campus student residences are a focal point of college culture. With names like Boot 'N Rally, The Plantation, and Crib of the Rib, house signs reproduce consequential categories of gender, sexuality, race, and faith in a medium students say is benign. Through his analysis of house signs and what students say about them, LaDousa introduces the reader to key concepts and approaches in cultural analysis.

Universities and colleges --- Signs and signboards --- College campuses --- Social aspects

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"The college experience is increasingly positioned to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return on investment. Specific, definable activities, such as research experience, first-year experience, and experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise skill sets in the form of an individual educational package. Through ethnography-based analysis, the contributors to this volume explore how these commodified 'experiences' have turned students into consumers and given them the illusion that they are in control of their investment. They further reveal how the pressure to plan every move with a constant eye on a demonstrable return has supplanted traditional approaches to classroom education and profoundly altered the student experience"--

Antropología y educación --- Neoliberalismo --- Enseñanza superior --- Economía --- Estudios superiores --- Educación superior --- Enseñanza postsecundaria --- Estudios postsecundarios --- Doctorado --- Iglesia y universidad --- Colegios universitarios --- Enseñanza técnica --- Enseñanza profesional --- Grados universitarios --- Universidades --- Estudiantes universitarios --- Educación y antropología --- Educación y etnología --- Etnología y educación --- Antropología educativa --- Antropología pedagógica --- Cultura y educación --- Estudios de 2o y 3er. ciclos