Authors:Daniel Miller, Daniel Miller, Michael Rowlands, Fred
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: culture, history, politics, materiality
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-08
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0822335425
ISBN-13: 9780822335429

Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief—whether religious or secular—have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely material. Yet, as the studies collected here show, the immaterial is not easily separated from the material. Humans are defined, to an extraordinary degree, by their expressions of immaterial ideals through material forms. The essays in Materiality explore varied manifestations of materiality from ancient times to the present. In assessing the fundamental role of materiality in shaping humanity, the

Authors:Daniel Miller (Series Editor), Daniel Miller,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: cultures, material, consumption, acknowledging
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1995-07-25
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 0415106893
ISBN-13: 9780415106894

This is an interdisciplinary look at consumption for undergraduate students. It has chapters by the leading researchers on anthropology, consumer behaviour, economics, geography, history, media studies, psychology and sociology, bringing together in a single volume the wealth of material on consumption produced in the last ten years. An essential book for students of all disciplines

Author: Daniel Miller
Publisher: Cornell University Pre
Keywords: shopping, theory
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1998-03-01
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0801485517
ISBN-13: 9780801485510

The butt of endless jokes and the focus of considerable anguish, shopping offers significant insights into contemporary social relations and their nuances. This book is about shopping for ordinary things. It is also about love and devotion manifest within families and about the nature of sacrificial ritual. A significant contributor to material culture studies, Daniel Miller is an acute observer and an exceptional storyteller. He approaches shopping not as an end in itself but as a means to discover what people’s practices, closely observed, reveal about their relationships. The ethnogra

Author: Daniel Right Miller
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: cures, causes, classes, criminal
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2008-11-14
List price: $24.75
ISBN-10: 0559565267
ISBN-13: 9780559565267

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Author: Daniel Miller
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: culture, materializing, series, doors, closed, material, home, possessions
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 1859735851
ISBN-13: 9781859735855

Although so much of the life we care about takes place at home, this private space often remains behind closed doors and is notoriously difficult for researchers to infiltrate. We may think it is just up to us to decorate, transform and construct out homes, but in this book we discover a new form of "estate agency," the active participation of the home and its material culture in the construction of our lives. What do the possessions people choose to take with them when moving say about who they are, and should we emphasize the mobility of a move or the stability of what movers take with them?

Author: Daniel C. Miller
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: assessment, essentials, psychological, neuropsychological, school
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2007-02-02
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0471783722
ISBN-13: 9780471783725

Author: Daniel Miller
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: sciences, social, concepts, critical, consumption
Number of Pages: 4
Published: 2001-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0415242681
ISBN-13: 9780415242684

Ranging from the classic discussions of a century and more ago, to the latest evidence for the diversity of consumption as it is actually practiced. These volumes comprise the most extensive guide to past and current research on the topic of consumption that has ever been created.