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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chin, Elizabeth, 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Temas:
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.