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Unwrapping Christmas

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Author: Miller, Daniel
ISBN: 9780198280668

by Miller, Daniel

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ISBN10:
0198280661
Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 1995-11-23
Publisher: Clarendon Press
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This book accounts for the current expansion of Christmas at a time of decline in other festivals. It is the first comparative study of the Christmas phenomenon and includes discussion of Christmas and materialism, Christmas and the family, and Christmas in a variety of cultural contexts,including the USA, Japan, Britain, Sweden, and Trinidad. It begins with general theories about the Christmas festival and is notable for its inclusion of a new and complete translation of Levi-Strauss's classic essay 'Father Christmas Executed'.

Author Biography

Daniel Miller is Reader in Anthropology at University College in London. He is the author of Artifacts and Categories and Material Culture and Mass COnsumption.

List of Contributors	p. ix
Introduction
A Theory of Christmas	p. 3
Father Christmas Executed	p. 38
Christmas And Materialism
The Rituals of Christmas Giving	p. 55
Materialism and the Making of the Modern American Christmas	p. 75
Cinderella Christmas: Kitsch, Consumerism, and Youth in Japan	p. 105
Christmas against Materialism in Trinidad	p. 134
Christmas And The Family
The English Christmas and the Family: Time out and Alternative Realities	p. 157
Christmas Cards and the Construction of Social Relations in Britain Today	p. 176
Christmas Present: Christmas Public	p. 193
The Great Christmas Quarrel and Other Swedish Traditions	p. 217
Index	p. 235
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