| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 182 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Materializing culture |
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Materializing culture.
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| Contents |
Individuals and the aesthetic of order / Daniel Miller -- Trading in fake brands, self-creating as an individual / Magdalena Crăciun -- 'Making things come out' : design, originality and the individual in a Bògòlan artisan community / Bodil Birkebœk Olesen -- Building and ordering transnationalism : the 'Greek house' in Albania as a material process / Dimitris Dalakoglou -- The Christian and the taxi driver : poverty and aspiration in rural Jamaica / Daniel Miller -- How Madrid creates individuals / Marjorie Murray -- Aesthetics of the self : digital mediations / Heather A. Horst -- Unmaking family relationships : Belgrade mothers and their migrant children / Ivana Bajić-Hajduković -- Fashioning individuality and social connectivity among Yoruba women in London / Julie Botticello -- Creating order through struggle in revolutionary Cuba / Anna Pertierra -- Food, family, art and God : aesthetic authority in public life in Trinidad / Gabrielle Hosein |
| Summary |
Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other perspectives on the person |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily |
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Print version record |
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Material culture.
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Individualism.
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material culture (discipline)
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Material culture.
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Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Individualism
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Material culture
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Sachkultur
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Individualismus
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Sozialanthropologie
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Individuum
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Kulturanthropologe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Miller, Daniel, 1954-
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| ISBN |
9781847884961 |
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1847884962 |
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9781847886019 |
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1847886019 |
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9781474214193 |
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1474214193 |
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