ISBN:
3-7186-5591-8
,
978-3-7186-5591-5
ISSN:
1055-2464
Language:
English
Pages:
VII, 239 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Studies in Anthropology and History 15
Keywords:
Konsum Identität
;
Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
Abstract:
This study is an attempt to locate the practice of consumption within more general strategies of social self-definition. The essays in this volume are addressed to the understanding of consumption in terms of a larger matrix of social identity and the cultural strategies connected with it.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction / J. Friedman; Capitalism, consumption and the problem of motives: some issues in the understanding of conduct as illustrated by an examination of the treatment of motive and meaning in the works of Weber and Veblen / Colin Campbell; Consuming interests / O. Löfgren; Style and ontology / D. Miller; Consumer goods as dialogue about development: colonial time and television time in Belize / R. Wilk; Beyond consumption: vitality and hierarchy in 19th century Chile / B.S. Orlove; The material culture of success: ideals and life cycles in Cameroon / M. Rowlands; The political economy of elegance: an African cult of beauty / J. Friedman; Strategies of centredness in Papua New Guinea / Eric Hirsch; Leisure, boredom and luxury consumerism: the lineage mode of consumption in a Central African society / I. Kopytoff.
Note:
"Papers are the product of a workshop organised by the Center for Research in the Humanities, Denmark, 1989" (Seite1)
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