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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455401103321

Titolo

Anthropology and the individual [[electronic resource] ] : a material culture perspective / / edited by Daniel Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berg, 2009

ISBN

1-000-18470-6

1-000-18152-9

1-282-30423-2

9786612304231

1-84788-601-9

1-84788-496-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Materializing culture

Altri autori (Persone)

MillerDaniel <1954->

Disciplina

302.5

Soggetti

Material culture

Individualism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 Individuals and the Aesthetic of Order; 2 Trading in Fake Brands, Self-creating as an Individual; 3 'Making Things Come Out': Design, Originality and the Individual in a Bògòlan Artisan Community; 4 Building and Ordering Transnationalism: The 'Greek House' in Albaniaas a Material Process; 5 The Christian and the Taxi Driver: Poverty and Aspiration in Rural Jamaica; 6 How Madrid Creates Individuals; 7 Aesthetics of the Self: Digital Mediations; 8 Unmaking Family Relationships: Belgrade Mothers and Their Migrant Children

9 Fashioning Individuality and Social Connectivity among Yoruba Women in London10 Creating Order through Struggle in Revolutionary Cuba; 11 Food, Family, Art and God: Aesthetic Authority in Public Life in Trinidad; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other



perspectives on the person.