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

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berg, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.5
• Soggetto topico: Material culture; Individualism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: MillerDaniel <1954->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Anthropology and the individual
• ISBN: 1-000-18470-6; 1-000-18152-9; 1-282-30423-2; 9786612304231; 1-84788-601-9; 1-84788-496-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455401103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Materializing culture.