Material Cultures
Why Some Things Matter
251 pages, 6 x 9
©
1998
Cloth $55.00
ISBN: 9780226526003
Published February 1998
For sale only in the United States, its dependencies, the Philippines, and Canada
Paper $27.00
ISBN: 9780226526010
Published February 1998
For sale only in the United States, its dependencies, the Philippines, and Canada
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1: Why some things matter
Daniel Miller
2: Radio texture: between self and others
Jo Tacchi
3: From woollen carpet to grass carpet: bridging house and garden in an English suburb
Sophie Chevalier
4: Window shopping at home: classifieds, catalogues and new consumer skills
Alison J. Clarke
5: The message in paper
Andrea Pellegram
6: Material of culture, fabric of identity
Neil Jarman
7: Calypso's consequences
Justin Finden-Crofts
8: Coca-Cola: a black sweet drink from Trinidad
Daniel Miller
9: Signs of the new nation: gift exchange, consumption and aid on a former collective farm in north-west Estonia
Sigrid Rausing
10: At home and abroad: inalienable wealth, personal consumption and the formulations of femininity in the southern Philippines
Mark Johnson
Index
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