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Consumption and Identity (Studies in Anthropology & History)

By Kajsa Ekholm Friedman

Book information

Publisher
Harwood Academic Publishers
Year
1994
ISBN
3718655926, 0203989481, 9783718655922, 9780203989487
Open Library ID
OL9078894M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2374847 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
178\178
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The present volume focuses intensively on the relation between consumption and culturally specific strategies for self-definition, both on an individual and a group basis. Many of the essays are explicit attempts to deal with the complex articulation of modern commodities and ''non-modern'' modes of appropriation.The papers reflect and engage some very recent developments in anthropology such as the growing interest in personhood expressed in the numerous works of cultural psychology, and an increasing emphasis on the re-envisioning of culture as continually constructed in socially differentiated practice. As such, these papers can be said to deal with consumption as part of the practice of social identity and the construction of culturally specific forms of life.Consumption and Identity is an attempt to locate the practice of consumption within more general strategies of social self-definition. While we have seen a growing literature on consumption in the social sciences, there has b

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