My life with things : the consumer diaries
Chin, Elizabeth, 1963-2016
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Unconventional and provocative, 'My Life with Things' is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology. She centres the book on diary entries that focus on everyday items - kitchen cabinet knobs, shoes, a piano - and uses them to intimately examine the ways consumption resonates with personal and social meaning: from writing love haikus about her favourite nail polish and discussing the racial implications of her tooth cap, to revealing how she used shopping to cope with a miscarriage and contemplating how her young daughter came to think that she needed Lunesta.
Main title:
My life with things : the consumer diaries / Elizabeth Chin.
Author:
Chin, Elizabeth, 1963-, author
Imprint:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Collation:
248 pages
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780822361367 (pbk)
Dewey class:
306.3
LC class:
HF5415.32
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1661202
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