Shopping: Material Culture Perspectives - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 164453049X ISBN 13 : 9781644530498

Editeur : University of Delaware Press, 2014

Synopsis

The degree to which shopping, or, more broadly, consumerism, is both critiqued and defended in American society confirms the role that commercial goods play in our daily lives. This collection of essays provides case studies depicting selected aspects of this engaging activity. The authors include several historians with diverging specialties: an art historian, an anthropologist, an environmental journalist, a geographer and urban planner, and practicing artists. Each author demonstrates how a material culture perspective-a focus on the relationship between people and their things-can illuminate a specific corner of consumption. Connecting the essays are concerns about the spaces in which shopping occurs; about the experience of shopping itself, both individual and social; and about its economic, environmental, and personal downsides. Collectively, these essays demonstrate how a material culture perspective on shopping yields insights into multiple aspects of American culture.

Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Deborah C. Andrews is Professor of English at the University of Delaware and directs the university's Center for Material Culture Studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Delaware Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 164453049X
• ISBN 13: 9781644530498
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 230
• Éditeur: Andrews Deborah C.
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