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Material culture and mass consumption / Daniel Miller.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Social archaeologyPublisher: Oxford, UK : Basil Blackwell, 1987Copyright date: ©1987Description: viii, 240 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0631156054
  • 9780631156055
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 306.46 23
LOC classification:
  • CC72.4 .M55 1987
Contents:
Part I. Objectification : -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hegel and objectification -- 3. Marx : objectification as rupture -- 4. Munn : objectification as culture -- 5. Simmel : objectification as modernity -- Part II. Material culture : -- 6. The humility of objects -- 7. Artefacts in their contexts -- Part III. Mass consumption : -- 8. The study of consumption -- 9. Object domains, ideology and interests -- 10. Towards a theory of consumption.
Summary: "This book sets out to investigate the relationship between society and material culture, and to assess the consequences of the enourmous increase in industrial production over the last century."--Page 3.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 306.46 MIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available A567284B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Objectification : -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hegel and objectification -- 3. Marx : objectification as rupture -- 4. Munn : objectification as culture -- 5. Simmel : objectification as modernity -- Part II. Material culture : -- 6. The humility of objects -- 7. Artefacts in their contexts -- Part III. Mass consumption : -- 8. The study of consumption -- 9. Object domains, ideology and interests -- 10. Towards a theory of consumption.

"This book sets out to investigate the relationship between society and material culture, and to assess the consequences of the enourmous increase in industrial production over the last century."--Page 3.

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