Materializing Difference : Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma /

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"How do objects mediate human relationships, and possess their own social and political agency? What role does material culture--such as prestige consumption as well as commodity aesthetics, biographies, and ownership histories--play in the production of social and political identities, differe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Berta, Peter, 1972- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Myers, Fred R., 1948- (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Romanies > Social life and customs.
Romanies > Politics and government.
Romanies > Ethnic identity.
Romanies > Economic conditions.
Consumption (Economics)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Tsiganes > Identite ethnique.
Tsiganes > Conditions economiques.
Tsiganes > Moeurs et coutumes.
Tsiganes > Culture materielle.
Consumption (Economics) > Romania.
Romanies > Material culture.
Romania.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Translocal Communities of Practice and Multi-Sited Ethnographies; Part One: Negotiating and Materializing Difference and Belonging; 1 Symbolic Arenas and Trophies of the Politics of Difference; 2 The Gabors' Prestige Economy: A Translocal, Ethnicized, Informal, and Gendered Consumer Subculture; 3 From Antiques to Prestige Objects: De- and Recontextualizing Commodities from the European Antiques Market; 4 Creating Symbolic and Material Patina
  • 5 The Politics of Brokerage: Bazaar-Style Trade and Risk Management6 Political Face-Work and Transcultural Bricolage/Hybridity: Prestige Objects in Political Discourse; Part Two: Contesting Consumer Subcultures: Interethnic Trade, Fake Authenticity, and Classification Struggles; 7 Gabor Roma, Cărhar Roma, and the European Antiques Market: Contesting Consumer Subcultures; 8 Interethnic Trade of Prestige Objects; 9 Constructing, Commodifying, and Consuming Fake Authenticity; 10 The Politics of Consumption: Classification Struggles, Moral Criticism, and Stereotyping
  • Part Three: Multi-Sited Commodity Ethnographies11 Things-in-Motion: Methodological Fetishism, Multi-Sitedness, and the Biographical Method; 12 Prestige Objects, Marriage Politics, and the Manipulation of Nominal Authenticity: The Biography of a Beaker, 2000-2007; 13 Proprietary Contest, Business Ethics, and Conflict Management: The Biography of a Roofed Tankard, 1992-2012; Conclusion: The Post-Socialist Consumer Revolution and the Shifting Meanings of Prestige Goods; Notes; References; Index; Colour plates

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