1st Edition
Modernity - An Ethnographic Approach Dualism and Mass Consumption in Trinidad
By Daniel Miller
Copyright 1994
348 Pages
by
Routledge
348 Pages
by
Routledge
340 Pages
by
Routledge
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From cultural studies, sociology, media studies, gender studies and elsewhere there have been a spate of books recently which have attempted to characterize the state of modernity. Many of these have also argued that what is required is an ethnographic work to determine how far these supposed trends actually apply to a given population. This book explicitly accepts this challenge and, in so doing,... Read more
Trinidad and modernity; modernity as a general property; Christmas, carnival and temporal consciousness; household as cultural idiom; mass consumption - origins and articulations; modernity as a specific condition.
Biography
Daniel Miller Professor of Anthropology,University College London. Recent books include 'A Theory of Shopping', 'The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach' (with Don Slater) and Ed. 'Car Cultures'.
