LEADER 04179nam 22006735 450 001 9910506388903321 005 20240313122109.0 010 $a9783030787837 010 $a3030787834 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-78783-7 035 $a(CKB)5340000000068532 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6790694 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6790694 035 $a(OCoLC)1285783181 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-78783-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)995340000000068532 100 $a20211023d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDomesticity on Display $eRomanian Middle-Class Material Culture from Late Socialism to Today /$fby Maria Cristache 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (215 pages) 225 1 $aConsumption and Public Life,$x2947-8235 311 08$a9783030787820 311 08$a3030787826 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Capturing Change through Everyday Materialities in Postsocialist Romania -- 2. From Signs of Culturedness to Downgraded Items: Value at the Intersection between Display and Hiding -- 3. Consolidating Social Relations through Gift Exchange and Barter: Beyond the Norm of Reciprocity -- 4. The Temporality of Objects: Abstract Time Brought into the Everyday -- 5. Temporal Dimensions of Consumption and Leisure: Rhythms, Changes, and Continuities -- 6. Gendered Spaces and Consumption Practices in (Post) Socialist Romania -- 7. The Glass Fish, the Figurine, and the Crystal Chandelier: From the Home to the Museum -- 8. Postsocialist Challenges and the Social Potential of Objects. 330 $aThis book examines postsocialist transformations reflected in urban middle-class domestic spaces and in museums dedicated to socialism in Romania. It focuses on the significance and circulation of porcelain and crystal sets and ornaments during late socialism and after 1989, following the experiences of consumers, workers in the glassware and porcelain industry, and artists. By tracing the values and temporalities embedded in materiality, the book sheds light on how objects shape daily life in a time of cultural, economic, and social change. Drawing on ethnographic research, the book offers an in-depth analysis of the ambiguous relationship between the middle-class and the socialist state, using materiality and consumption to shed light on contradictions between aspirations and resources and between official discourses and everyday practices. The book reveals changes in practices of display, gift exchange, and barter, in the perception and use of time, as well as in gender and inter-generational relations. This work will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists and cultural historians, especially researchers interested in consumption, material culture, postsocialism, the anthropology of value and gift, the study of social time, practices of the middle-class, and the history of consumption in Eastern Europe. Maria Cristache completed her PhD in sociology at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, and was a member of the Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture. . 410 0$aConsumption and Public Life,$x2947-8235 606 $aCulture 606 $aConsumer behavior 606 $aSpace 606 $aEthnology 606 $aSociology of Culture 606 $aConsumer Behavior 606 $aSpace and Place in Culture 606 $aSociocultural Anthropology 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aConsumer behavior. 615 0$aSpace. 615 0$aEthnology. 615 14$aSociology of Culture. 615 24$aConsumer Behavior. 615 24$aSpace and Place in Culture. 615 24$aSociocultural Anthropology. 676 $a306.4609498 676 $a306.4609498 700 $aCristache$b Maria$01073021 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910506388903321 996 $aDomesticity on Display$92569206 997 $aUNINA