Material Cultures (eBook, ePUB)

Why Some Things Matter
Redaktion: Miller, Daniel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is an ethnographic study of material cultures. Incorporating local and global dimensions, a team of scholars explore the changing experiences of cultures in locations as disparate as the Philippines and Northern Ireland. Material culture and consumption studies have undergone something of a renaissance recently. This study provides an up-to-date analysis of a developing field in sociological and anthropological based courses.; This book is intended for undergraduate/MA courses on material culture and consumption within cultural studies and anthropology degree schemes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135361631
• Artikelnr.: 38253638

Autorenporträt

Daniel Miller

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 Why some things matter, Daniel Miller
Part 2 The domestic sphere
Chapter 2 Radio texture: between self and others, Jo Tacchi
Chapter 3 From woollen carpet to grass carpet: bridging house and garden in an English suburb, Sophie Chevalier
Chapter 4 Window shopping at home: classifieds, catalogues and new consumer skills, Alison J. Clarke
Part 3 The public sphere
Chapter 5 The message in paper, Andrea Pellegram
Chapter 6 Material of culture, fabric of identity, Neil Jarman
Chapter 7 Calypso's consequences, Justin Finden-Crofts
Part 4 The global sphere (or the World Wide West)
Chapter 8 Coca-Cola: a black sweet drink from Trinidad, Daniel Miller
Chapter 9 Signs of the new nation: gift exchange, consumption and aid on a former collective farm in north-west Estonia, Sigrid Rausing
Chapter 10 At home and abroad: inalienable wealth, personal consumption and formulations of femininity in the southern Philippines, Mark Johnson