Theory of Shopping

The butt of endless jokes and the focus of considerable anguish, shopping offers significant insights into contemporary...
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Author: Daniel Miller
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Language: English
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Theory of Shopping by Miller, Daniel

Theory of Shopping

¥12,413

Theory of Shopping

¥12,413
Author: Daniel Miller
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 of sacrificial ritual. A significant contributor to material culture studies, Daniel Miller is an acute observer and an exceptional storyteller. He approaches shopping not as an end in itself but as a means to discover what people's practices, closely observed, reveal about their relationships. The ethnographic sections of the book are based on a year's study of shopping on a street in North London. This provides the basis for a sensitive description of how shoppers develop and imagine the social relationships most important to them through the medium of selecting goods. Among the characteristics of these shopping expeditions are the concept of "the treat," and the centrality of thrift. Miller juxtaposes on his account of shopping various theories that anthropologists have brought to bear on the ritual of sacrifice, including that of the French philosopher George Bataille. He then integrates these elements to postulate his theory of shopping as sacrifice in terms as original and as utterly engaging as the stories he tells of individual shoppers.



Author: Daniel Miller
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 04/02/1998
Pages: 180
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.93h x 5.91w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780801485510
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author

Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at the University College of London. His recent books include Capitalism: An Ethnographic Research and Worlds Apart: Modernity through the Prism of the Local.


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