The Wedding Present : Domestic Life Beyond Consumption
Louise. Purbrick
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Farnham : : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, , 2014.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (210 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Making Homes and Worlds; 1 Objects of Approval; 2 China and Pyrex: The Practices of Preservation; 3 Accounting for Change: Forgotten, Neglected and Altered Objects; 4 The List: Domesticity, Conformity and Class; 5 Methods: Mass-Observation; 6 Afterword: Unmarried Households; Bibliography; Appendices; Index. - In this fascinating work, Louise Purbrick offers an alternative analysis of contemporary domestic consumption. She investigates the ritualized presentation of objects upon marriage, and their subsequent cycles of exchange within the domestic sphere. Presenting new material on the enactment of exchange relationships within everyday domesticity, The Wedding Present makes significant historical, theoretical and methodological contributions to the analysis of contemporary consumption.
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| Emner | Consumption (Economics) - Great Britain
Economic anthropolgy - Great Britain Gifts - Economic aspects - Great Britain Great Britain - Economic conditions Vis mer... Great Britain - Social life and customs
Households - Great Britain Marriage customs and rites - Great Britain Anthropology Manners & Customs Social Sciences gave gaveøkonomi bytte husholdsøkonomi konsum individ metode |
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| ISBN | 0754644723. - 9780754644729
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