Material Cultures

by Miller, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780226526010
• ISBN10: 0226526011
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-17
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

The domestic sphere: Radio texture - between self and others

As seen on TV: socialization of the tele-visual consumer

From woollen carpet to grass carpet: bridging house and garden in an English suburbia

The public sphere: The message in paper

Material of culture, fabric of indentity

Calypso's consequence

The global sphere: Coca-cola - a black sweet drink from Trinidad

Signs of the new nation - gift exchange, consumption and aid on a former collective farm in North West Estonia

At home and abroad: inalienable wealth, personal consumption and the reformulation of feminine identity in the Southern Philippines

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