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The comfort of things / Daniel Miller.
Main entry:

Miller, Daniel, 1954-

Title & Author:

The comfort of things / Daniel Miller.

Publication:

Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2008.

Description:

viii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Prologue -- Portrait 1. Empty -- Portrait 2. Full -- Portrait 3. A porous vessel -- Portrait 4. Starry green plastic ducks -- Portrait 5. Learning love -- Portrait 6. The aboriginal laptop -- Portrait 7. Home and homeland -- Portrait 8. Tattoo -- Portrait 9. Haunted -- Portrait 10. Talk to the dog -- Portrait 11. Tales from the publicans -- Portrait 12. Making a living -- Portrait 13. McDonald's truly Happy Meals -- Portrait 14. The exhibitionist -- Portrait 15. Re-birth -- Portrait 16. Strength of character -- Portrait 17. Heroin -- Portrait 18. Shi -- Portrait 19. Brazil 2 England 2 -- Portrait 20. A thousand places to see before you die -- Portrait 21. Rosebud -- Portrait 22. The Orientalist -- Portrait 23. Sepia -- Portrait 24. An unscripted life -- Portrait 25. Oh sod it! -- Portrait 26. Jose and Jose's wife -- Portrait 27. Wrestling -- Portrait 28. The carpenter -- Portrait 29. Things that bright up the place -- Portrait 30. Home truths -- Epilogue: If this is modern life : then what is that? -- Appendix: The study.
Summary:

What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, what really matters to them and how they organize their lives? In this book, anthropologist Daniel Miller visits an ordinary street to look into 30 households and to reveal the forms by which ordinary people make sense of their lives.

ISBN:

9780745644035
0745644031
9780745644042 (pbk.)
074564404X (pbk.)

Subject:

Personal belongings England London Psychological aspects.
Objets personnels Angleterre Londres Aspect psychologique.
71.56 material culture (sociology)
49.30 dwelling, home furnishing.
Social conditions.
Besitz
Psychologie
Implements.
Attachment.
Material culture.
London (England) Social conditions.
London (england) Social conditions.
England London.
London
London (England)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 268440
Call No.: BIB 200269
Status: Available

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