LEADER 02684oam 2200469K 450 001 9910794353103321 005 20200921045619.0 010 $a1-00-313521-8 010 $a1-000-32331-5 010 $a1-003-13521-8 010 $a1-000-32510-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000011393679 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6313513 035 $a(OCoLC)1190776814 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1190776814 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9781003135210 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011393679 100 $a20200826d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||unuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aModernity - an ethnographic approach $edualism and mass consumption in Trinidad /$fDaniel Miller 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$a[London] :$cRoutledge,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (340 pages) 311 $a0-85496-916-0 327 $aTrinidad 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. 330 $aFrom 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, demonstrates the potential of modern anthropology studies. It starts by summarizing some debates on modernity and then argues that the Caribbean island of Trinidad is particularly apt for such a study given the origins of its population in slavery and indentured labour, both forms of extreme social rupture. The particular focus of this book is on mass consumption and the way goods and imported images such as soap opera have been used to express and develop a number of key contradictions of modernity. It will be of interest to anthropologists looking for a new potential for the discipline, as well as students in other fields who will be interested in the new contribution of anthropology to their debates. 606 $aEthnology$zTrinidad and Tobago$zTrinidad 607 $aTrinidad$xEconomic conditions 607 $aTrinidad$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aEthnology 676 $a304.23 700 $aMiller$b Daniel$f1954-$0118348 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794353103321 996 $aModernity - an ethnographic approach$93827369 997 $aUNINA