Miller, Daniel

Stuff

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ISBN 13:: 9780745644240
author:: Miller, Daniel
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Polity Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2009
Pages:: 220
Dimensions:: 22.8 x 15 x 1.6 cm
Genre:: Anthropology
Condition:: New
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Things make us just as much as we make things. Yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book offers a new perspective by acknowledging and confronting this neglect, exploring how much we can learn from focusing on stuff. The author critiques the concept of superficiality as applied to clothing, presenting theories that help us understand the way we are created by both material and social relations. The book delves into the private worlds of our home possessions and our processes of accommodation, considering issues of materiality in relation to the media. It also examines the implications of this approach on poverty and our relationship with objects that define life and death. Based on over thirty years of research across various locations, Stuff presents a manifesto for the study of material culture, offering a fresh way of looking at the objects that surround us and make up so much of our social and personal lives.

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