Goods, Power, History: Latin America's Material Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521772082)

This book is an original exploration into the history of material culture and consumption in Latin America over the past 500 years with special attention to the categories of food, clothing, shelter, and the arrangement of public and private space. The practice of consumption is related to supply and demand but also to the importance of ritual and the scramble for identity within the ethnic and class arrangements imposed by colonial and postcolonial societies.

Author: Arnold J. Bauer
ISBN-10: 0521772087
ISBN-13: 9780521772082
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2001
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2002 pg. 942