Daniel Miller

Modernity - An Ethnographic Approach

Dualism and Mass Consumption in Trinidad

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Produktbeschreibung

The particular focus on this book is on mass consumption and the way goods and imported images such as the soap opera have been used to express and develop a number of key contradictions of modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 144mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780854969166
• ISBN-10: 0854969160
• Artikelnr.: 21214191

Autorenporträt

Daniel Miller Professor of Anthropology,University College London. Recent books include 'A Theory of Shopping', 'The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach' (with Don Slater) and Ed. 'Car Cultures'.

Inhaltsangabe

Trinidad and modernity
modernity as a general property
Christmas, carnival and temporal consciousness
household as cultural idiom
mass consumption - origins and articulations
modernity as a specific condition.