Materializing Culture – serie
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Why Women Wear What They Wear
Av Sophie Woodward, Daniel Miller
Häftad, 2007
474 kr
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Each morning we establish an image and an identity for ourselves through the simple act of getting dressed. Why Women Wear What They Wear presents an intimate ethnography of clothing choice. The book uses real women's lives and clothing decisions - observed and discussed at the moment of getting …
Ethics and Nationalist Populism at the British Seaside
Negotiating Character
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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Drawing on ethnographic research at the British seaside, this book offers an original and insightful anthropological contribution to the study of contemporary Britain and nationalism. The volume focuses on people who have retired from different parts of the UK to the seaside town of Margate and …
Ethics and Nationalist Populism at the British Seaside
Negotiating Character
Häftad, 2023
648 kr
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Drawing on ethnographic research at the British seaside, this book offers an original and insightful anthropological contribution to the study of contemporary Britain and nationalism. The volume focuses on people who have retired from different parts of the UK to the seaside town of Margate and …
Global Art in Local Art Worlds
Changing Hierarchies of Value
Av Oscar Salemink, Amélia Siegel Corrêa m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2198 kr
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This book explores the attribution and local negotiation of cultural valuations of artistic and art-institutional practices around the world, and considers the diverse ways in which these value attributions intersect with claims of universality and cosmopolitanism. Taking Michael Herzfeld’s notion …
Global Art in Local Art Worlds
Changing Hierarchies of Value
Av Oscar Salemink, Amélia Siegel Corrêa m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
667 kr
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This book explores the attribution and local negotiation of cultural valuations of artistic and art-institutional practices around the world, and considers the diverse ways in which these value attributions intersect with claims of universality and cosmopolitanism. Taking Michael Herzfeld’s notion …
Materiality of Nothing
Exploring Our Everyday Relationships with Objects Absent and Present
Av Helen Holmes
Inbunden, 2023
2513 kr
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The Materiality of Nothing explores the invisible, intangible and transient materials and objects of everyday life and the relationships we have with them. Drawing on over 15 years of original, empirical research, it builds on growing research on the everyday, and unites the established field of …
Materiality of Nothing
Exploring Our Everyday Relationships with Objects Absent and Present
Av Helen Holmes
Häftad, 2024
648 kr
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The Materiality of Nothing explores the invisible, intangible and transient materials and objects of everyday life and the relationships we have with them. Drawing on over 15 years of original, empirical research, it builds on growing research on the everyday, and unites the established field of …
Why Women Wear What They Wear
E-bok, 2007
515 kr
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Each morning we establish an image and an identity for ourselves through the simple act of getting dressed. Why Women Wear What They Wear presents an intimate ethnography of clothing choice. The book uses real women''s lives and clothing decisions - observed and discussed at the moment of getting …
Food Waste
Home Consumption, Material Culture and Everyday Life
Av David M. Evans, Daniel Miller
Inbunden, 2014
1703 kr
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In recent years, food waste has risen to the top of the political and public agenda, yet until now there has been no scholarly analysis applied to the topic as a complement and counter-balance to campaigning and activist approaches. Using ethnographic material to explore global issues, Food Waste …
Food Waste
Home Consumption, Material Culture and Everyday Life
Av David M. Evans, Daniel Miller
Häftad, 2014
417 kr
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In recent years, food waste has risen to the top of the political and public agenda, yet until now there has been no scholarly analysis applied to the topic as a complement and counter-balance to campaigning and activist approaches. Using ethnographic material to explore global issues, Food Waste …
Food Waste
Home Consumption, Material Culture and Everyday Life
E-bok, 2014
438 kr
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In recent years, food waste has risen to the top of the political and public agenda, yet until now there has been no scholarly analysis applied to the topic as a complement and counter-balance to campaigning and activist approaches. Using ethnographic material to explore global issues, Food Waste …
Food and the Self
Consumption, Production and Material Culture
Av Isabelle de Solier, Daniel Miller
Inbunden, 2013
1703 kr
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We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but by consuming them in leisure, leading to 'meaningless' modern lives. This important book reveals the cultural shift to be more complex, demonstrating how people in postindustrial societies strive to form …
Food and the Self
Consumption, Production and Material Culture
Av Isabelle de Solier, Daniel Miller
Häftad, 2013
417 kr
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We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but by consuming them in leisure, leading to 'meaningless' modern lives. This important book reveals the cultural shift to be more complex, demonstrating how people in postindustrial societies strive to form …
Food and the Self
Consumption, Production and Material Culture
E-bok, 2013
452 kr
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We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but by consuming them in leisure, leading to ''meaningless'' modern lives. This important book reveals the cultural shift to be more complex, demonstrating how people in postindustrial societies strive to form …
Material Culture and Authenticity
Fake Branded Fashion in Europe
Inbunden, 2013
2513 kr
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The study of material culture demonstrates that objects make people just as much as people make, exchange and consume objects. But what if these objects are, in the eyes of others, only fakes? What kind of material mirror are people looking into? Are their real selves really reflected in this …
Material Culture and Authenticity
Fake Branded Fashion in Europe
Häftad, 2013
648 kr
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The study of material culture demonstrates that objects make people just as much as people make, exchange and consume objects. But what if these objects are, in the eyes of others, only fakes? What kind of material mirror are people looking into? Are their real selves really reflected in this …
Urban Ghana and Privacy in the Digital Age
An Ethnographic Exploration
Inbunden, 2022
2513 kr
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This book explores privacy practices and the role of digital technologies in the lives of urban Ghanaians, considering how they use language, materiality, and culture to maintain sharp boundaries between the private and public. Focusing on the harbour town of Tema, it offers rich ethnographic …
Urban Ghana and Privacy in the Digital Age
An Ethnographic Exploration
Häftad, 2024
648 kr
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This book explores privacy practices and the role of digital technologies in the lives of urban Ghanaians, considering how they use language, materiality, and culture to maintain sharp boundaries between the private and public. Focusing on the harbour town of Tema, it offers rich ethnographic …
Luxury Indian Fashion
A Social Critique
Av Tereza Kuldova, Daniel Miller
Häftad, 2017
444 kr
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This unique ethnographic investigation examines the role that fashion plays in the production of the contemporary Indian luxury aesthetic. Tracking luxury Indian fashion from its production in village craft workshops via upmarket design studios to fashion soirées, Kuldova investigates the Indian …
Food and the Self
Consumption, Production and Material Culture
E-bok, 2013
442 kr
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We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but by consuming them in leisure, leading to ''meaningless'' modern lives. This important book reveals the cultural shift to be more complex, demonstrating how people in postindustrial societies strive to form …
Food Waste
Home Consumption, Material Culture and Everyday Life
E-bok, 2014
438 kr
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In recent years, food waste has risen to the top of the political and public agenda, yet until now there has been no scholarly analysis applied to the topic as a complement and counter-balance to campaigning and activist approaches. Using ethnographic material to explore global issues, Food Waste …
Luxury Indian Fashion
A Social Critique
Av Tereza Kuldova, Daniel Miller
Inbunden, 2016
1758 kr
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This unique ethnographic investigation examines the role that fashion plays in the production of the contemporary Indian luxury aesthetic. Tracking luxury Indian fashion from its production in village craft workshops via upmarket design studios to fashion soirées, Kuldova investigates the Indian …
Luxury Indian Fashion
A Social Critique
E-bok, 2016
482 kr
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This unique ethnographic investigation examines the role that fashion plays in the production of the contemporary Indian luxury aesthetic. Tracking luxury Indian fashion from its production in village craft workshops via upmarket design studios to fashion soirées, Kuldova investigates the Indian …
Luxury Indian Fashion
A Social Critique
E-bok, 2016
482 kr
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This unique ethnographic investigation examines the role that fashion plays in the production of the contemporary Indian luxury aesthetic. Tracking luxury Indian fashion from its production in village craft workshops via upmarket design studios to fashion soirées, Kuldova investigates the Indian …
Japanese House
Material Culture in the Modern Home
Av Inge Daniels
Häftad, 2010
594 kr
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In the West the Japanese house has reached iconic status in its architecture, decoration and style. Is this neat, carefully constructed version of Japanese life in fact a myth? Inge Daniels goes behind the doors of real Japanese homes to find out how highly private domestic lives are lived in …
Latex and Lingerie
Shopping for Pleasure at Ann Summers Parties
Av Merl Storr
E-bok, 2003
546 kr
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Sexy, hedonistic, hilarious - Ann Summers parties are the ultimate girls'' night in. Promising the perfect antidote to the toils of everyday life - sexual pleasure - they are the ''naughty but nice'' version of the classic Tupperware® party. Ann Summers parties are incredibly popular, with around …
Why Women Wear What They Wear
Av Sophie Woodward, Daniel Miller
Inbunden, 2007
1707 kr
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Each morning we establish an image and an identity for ourselves through the simple act of getting dressed. Why Women Wear What They Wear presents an intimate ethnography of clothing choice. The book uses real women's lives and clothing decisions - observed and discussed at the moment of getting …
Anthropology and the Individual
A Material Culture Perspective
Häftad, 2009
620 kr
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Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This highly original study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other …
Anthropology and the Individual
A Material Culture Perspective
Inbunden, 2009
2519 kr
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Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This highly original study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other …
Why Women Wear What They Wear
E-bok, 2007
515 kr
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Each morning we establish an image and an identity for ourselves through the simple act of getting dressed. Why Women Wear What They Wear presents an intimate ethnography of clothing choice. The book uses real women''s lives and clothing decisions - observed and discussed at the moment of getting …
