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Material cultures : why some things matter / edited by Daniel Miller.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Consumption and space | Consumption and spacePublication details: London : UCL Press, 1997.Description: xi, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781857286854:
  • 9781857286861
  • 1857286855
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306
Contents:
Why some things matter / Daniel Miller -- Radio texture: between self and others / Jo Tacchi -- From woollen carpet to grass carpet: bridging house and garden in an English suburb / Sophie Chevalier -- Window shopping at home: classifieds, catalogues and new consumer skills / Alison J. Clarke -- The message in paper / Andrea Pellegram -- Material of culture, fabric of identity / Neil Jarman -- Calypso's consequences / Justin Finden-Crofts -- Coca-Cola: a black sweet drink from Trinidad / Daniel Miller -- Signs of the new nation: gift exchange, consumption and aid on a former collective farm in north-west Estonia / Sigrid Rausing -- At home and abroad: inalienable wealth, personal consumption and the formulations of femininity in the southern Philippines / Mark Johnson.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 306 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 40694

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why some things matter / Daniel Miller -- Radio texture: between self and others / Jo Tacchi -- From woollen carpet to grass carpet: bridging house and garden in an English suburb / Sophie Chevalier -- Window shopping at home: classifieds, catalogues and new consumer skills / Alison J. Clarke -- The message in paper / Andrea Pellegram -- Material of culture, fabric of identity / Neil Jarman -- Calypso's consequences / Justin Finden-Crofts -- Coca-Cola: a black sweet drink from Trinidad / Daniel Miller -- Signs of the new nation: gift exchange, consumption and aid on a former collective farm in north-west Estonia / Sigrid Rausing -- At home and abroad: inalienable wealth, personal consumption and the formulations of femininity in the southern Philippines / Mark Johnson.

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