Margaret Visser: 6 books
The Geometry of Love
Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
A “delightful” tour of Rome’s St. Agnes Outside the Walls, examining the stories, rituals, and architecture of this seventeen-hundred-year-old building (The Christian Science Monitor).
In The Geometry of Love, acclaimed author Margaret Visser, the preeminent “anthropologist of everyday...
The Way We Are
What Everyday Objects and Conventions Tell Us About Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
The beloved and bestselling “anthropologist of everyday life” turns her witty and insightful gaze to the oddities of living in our modern world
Over the course of her time as a contributor and editor for *Saturday Night *magazine—a span during which she published her award-winning book The...
The Gift of Thanks
The Roots and Rituals of Gratitude
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
“A scholarly, many-angled examination of what gratitude is and how it functions in our lives” from the bestselling author of The Rituals of Dinner (*TheNew York Times*).**
Known as an “anthropologist of everyday life,” Margaret Visser has won numerous awards for illuminating the unexpected...
The Rituals of Dinner
The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
A New York Times Notable Book: A renowned scholar explores the way we eat across cultures and throughout history.
From the wild parties of ancient Greece to the strictures of an Upper East Side meal to the ritualistic feasts of cannibals, Margaret Visser takes us on a fascinating journey through...
Since Eve Ate Apples Much Depends on Dinner
The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
A “funny and fascinating” cultural history about one of our favorite pastimes: eating (The Village Voice).
This is a delightful and intelligent look at the food we eat, with a cornucopia of incredible details about the ways we do it.
Presented like a meal, each chapter of Since Eve...
by Margaret Visser
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
In spite of modern ideals and achievements in the area of freedom and choice, people today are often afflicted with a sense that they cannot change things for the better. They feel helpless, constrained, caught -- in a word, fatalistic. Beyond Fate, Margaret Visser's 2002 CBC Massey Lectures, examines...