Material Culture and Mass Consumerism

by Miller, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780631156055
• ISBN10: 0631156054
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-12-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

In recent years, social theory has played an increasingly important role in archaeology. In particular, archaeologists have shown a growing interest in meaning, structure, text, power and ideology. Social Archaeology is a series designed to explore these wider interests and the developing links between archaeology, anthropology, sociology and history. From a basis of detailed archaeological and ethnographic research, the authors will re-examine the relationships between past and present and between material culture and society, looking at, for example, the clothes we wear, the houses we build and the rubbish we deposit. The series will also apply perspectives and methods in archaeology that incorporate or have been influenced by developments in social theory and ethnography. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Daniel Miller is the author of Material Culture and Mass Consumerism, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part I Objectification	1	(82)
Introduction	3	(16)
Hegel and Objectification	19	(15)
Marx: Objectification as Rupture	34	(16)
Munn: Objectification as Culture	50	(18)
Simmel: Objectification as Modernity	68	(15)
Part II Material Culture	83	(48)
The Humility of Objects	85	(24)
Artefacts in their Contexts	109	(22)
Part III Mass Consumption	131	(88)
The Study of Consumption	133	(25)
Object Domains, Ideology and Interests	158	(20)
Towards a Theory of Consumption	178	(41)
References	219	(14)
Index	233