ISBN:
9780822374268
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (viii, 239 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Chin, Elizabeth, 1963 - My life with things
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Chin, Elizabeth, 1963 - My life with things
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Chin, Elizabeth, 1963 - My life with things
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Chin, Elizabeth, 1963 - My life with things
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Chin, Elizabeth, 1963- Diaries.
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Chin, Elizabeth
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Consumers Diaries.
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Anthropologists Diaries.
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Ethnology Authorship.
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Consumption (Economics)
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Consumer behavior.
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Chin, Elizabeth
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Electronic books
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Tagebuch
Abstract:
My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology in which she uses everyday items to intimately examine the ways consumption resonates with personal and social meaning.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Entries -- My Life with Things -- Learn to Love Stuff -- Banky -- A Digression on the Topic of the Transitional Object -- Cebebrate! -- My Purple Shoes -- Newspapers -- Rose Nails -- The Window Shade -- Napkins -- My White Man's Tooth -- Should I Be Straighter -- Cyberfucked -- Knobs -- Glasses -- Curing Rug Lust -- Window Shopping Online -- Catalogs -- Other People's Labor -- Making Roots/Making Routes -- My Closet(s) -- Joining the MRE -- Fun Shopping -- Preschool Birthday Parties -- Xena Warrior Consumer Princess -- I Love Your Nail Polish -- Little Benches -- The Kiss -- Are There Malls in Haiti? -- Baby Number Two Turned Me into Economic Man -- Pictures of the Rice Grain -- Panting in Ikea -- Capitalism Makes Me Sick -- My Grandmother's Rings -- Anorectic Energy -- Mi-Mi's Piano -- Dream-Filled Prescription -- The Turquoise Arrowhead -- Turning the Tables -- Minnie Mouse Earring Holder -- Make Yourself a Beloved Person -- 3. Writing as Practice and Process -- 4. This Never Happened -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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