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Author:Daniel Miller
A Young Man of Montana: From Hard Youth to Hawaii Mule-Skinner
IRVIN ATCHISON lived a hard life as a young man growing up around Sidney, Montana, in the difficult times of the 1920s and 1930s. He had a way with horses and a hardscrabble life. When he joined the US Army, he had no idea...- $19.95
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Blue Jeans: The Art of the Ordinary
This fresh and accessible ethnography offers a new vision of how society might cohere, in the face of on-going global displacement, dislocation, and migration. Drawing from intensive fieldwork in a highly diverse North London neighborhood, Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward focus on an everyday...- $29.95
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Car Cultures
Anyone who assumes that a car is simply a means to get from point A to point B, or who even thinks that they know what a car is, should read this book. Profoundly shaped by culture, the car gives rise to a wide...- $42.95
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Drinking at Disney: A Tipsy Travel Guide to Walt Disney World's Bars, Lounges & Glow Cubes
For the rookies to the annual passholders, Drinking at Disney is the ultimate bar and lounge guide for adults visiting Walt Disney World.Updated for 2019 with over 100 in-depth bar reviews, hundreds of full-color photographs and maps, customized drinking plans, and pro-tips. Drunky, your...- $26.95
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Author:Daniel Miller
Global Denim
On any given day nearly half the world's population is wearing blue jeans. This is entirely extraordinary. Yet there has never been a serious attempt to understand the causes, nature and consequences of denim as 'the' global garment of our world. This book takes...- $125.00
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Author:Daniel Miller
Good Enough Life
This book is a highly original exploration of what life could and should be. It juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of people living in a small Irish town. Attending carefully to the everyday lives of...- $69.95
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Author:Daniel Miller
Ideology, Power and Prehistory
This book starts from the premise that methodology - the procedures for obtaining an 'objective' knowledge of the past - has always dominated archaeology to the detriment of broader social theory. It argues that social theory is archaeological theory, and that past failure to...- $29.99
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Author:Daniel Miller
Material Culture and Mass Consumption
Exploring materialism and social relationships in modern culture Material Culture and Mass Consumption offers an in-depth exploration of objects, objectification, ideology, and materialism in modern society. Drawing from Hegel, Marx, Munn, and Simmel, the discussion delves into the physicality of the material world and...- $49.95
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Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter
The field of material culture, while historically well established, has recently enjoyed something of a renaissance. Methods once dominated by Marxist- and commodity-oriented analyses and by the study of objects as symbols are giving way to a more ethnographic approach to artifacts. This orientation...- $37.00
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Materiality
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...- $27.95
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Author:Daniel Miller
Mute: A Visual Document: From 1978 - Tomorrow
Mute is one of the most revered and influential indie labels of all time. Through the music of its tight-knit community of artists--ranging from Cabaret Voltaire, Nick Cave's The Birthday Party and Moby to Depeche Mode, Erasure, and Goldfrapp--it has had an incalculable impact...- $45.00
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Author:Daniel Miller
Stuff
Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and...- $67.50
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The Comfort of Things
Wer und vor allem wie lebt man in London heute? In 30 brillanten Portr ts erf hrt der Leser ganz intime Details, durchlebt selbst alle H hen und Tiefen der Protagonisten und erh lt einen umfassenden Einblick in das 'Wesen der Menschen' aus Sicht...- $19.95
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Author:Daniel Miller
The Good Enough Life
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Author:Daniel Miller
The Sari
Drawing on experiences from villagers in Bengal to scientists in Bangalore, this book explores the beauty, adaptability and personality of India's most iconic garment. Banerjee and Miller show why the sari has survived and indeed flourished as everyday dress when most of the world...- $40.95
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Theory of Shopping
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...- $31.95
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