My life with things : the consumer diaries /
"Unconventional and provocative, My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology. Chin centers the book on diary entries that focus on everyday items--kitchen cabinet knobs, shoes...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2016.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The entries
- My life with things
- Learn to love stuff
- Banky
- A digression on the topic of the transitional object
- Cebebrate
- My purple shoes
- Newspapers
- Rose nails
- The window shade
- Napkins
- My white man's tooth
- Should i be straighter
- Cyberfucked
- Knobs
- Glasses
- Curing rug lust
- Window shopping online
- Catalogs
- Other people's labor
- Making roots/making routes
- My closet(s)
- Joining the MRE
- Fun shopping
- Preschool birthday parties
- Xena warrior consumer princess
- I love your nail polish
- Little benches
- The kiss
- Are there malls in Haiti?
- Baby number two turned me into economic man
- Pictures of the rice grain
- Panting in ikea
- Capitalism makes me sick
- My grandmother?s rings
- Anorectic energy
- Mi-mi?s piano
- Dream-filled prescription
- The turquoise arrowhead
- Turning the tables
- Minnie Mouse earring holder
- Make yourself a beloved person
- Writing as practice and process
- This never happened.