Anthropology and the Individual

A Material Culture Perspective
Herausgeber: Miller, Daniel

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Produktbeschreibung

Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This highly original study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other perspectives on the person. Contributors draw on approaches from material culture to create fascinating portraits of individuals, offering analytical insights that convey ethnographic encounters with often extraordinary people from Turkey, Spain and Britain to Albania, Cuba, Jamaica, Mali, Serbia and Trinidad. Exploring relationships to places and spaces such as social networking sites, to persons such as parents, to ethical concerns such as fairness and to ideas such as the ideology of struggle, Anthropology and the Individual shows how the study of the individual can provide insights into society without losing a sense of the particularity of the person.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781847884954
• ISBN-10: 1847884954
• Artikelnr.: 27430951

Autorenporträt

Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology, University College London.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Individuals and the Aesthetic of OrderD. Miller2. Trading in Fake
Brands, Self-creating as an IndividualM. Crãciun3. 'Making Things Come
Out': Design, Originality and the Individual in a Bogolan Artisan
CommunityB. Olesen4. Building and Ordering Transnationalism: The 'Greek
House' in Albania as a Material ProcessD. Dalakoglou5. The Christian and
the Taxi-driver: Poverty and Aspiration in Rural JamaicaD. Miller6. How
Madrid Makes IndividualsM. Murray7. Aesthetics of the Self: Digital
Mediations H. Horst8. Unmaking Family Relationships: Belgrade Mothers and
Their Migrant ChildrenI. Bajiæ9. Fashioning Individuality and Social
Connectivity Among Yoruba Women in LondonJ. Botticello10. Creating Order
Through Struggle in Revolutionary Cuba A. Pertierra11. Food, Family, Art
and God: Aesthetic Authority in Public Life in TrinidadG. Hosein