Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter

ISBN-13: 9781857286861 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str.

Miller, Daniel

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

Daniel Miller