Shopping

Material Culture Perspectives

Buch | Softcover

230 Seiten

2014
University of Delaware Press (Verlag)
978-1-64453-049-8 (ISBN)

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The degree to which shopping, or, more broadly, consumerism, is both critiqued and defended in American society confirms the role that commercial goods play in our daily lives. This collection of essays provides case studies depicting selected aspects of this engaging activity. The authors include several historians with diverging specialties: an art historian, an anthropologist, an environmental journalist, a geographer and urban planner, and practicing artists. Each author demonstrates how a material culture perspective-a focus on the relationship between people and their things-can illuminate a specific corner of consumption. Connecting the essays are concerns about the spaces in which shopping occurs; about the experience of shopping itself, both individual and social; and about its economic, environmental, and personal downsides. Collectively, these essays demonstrate how a material culture perspective on shopping yields insights into multiple aspects of American culture.

Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Deborah C. Andrews is Professor of English at the University of Delaware and directs the university’s Center for Material Culture Studies.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.02.2019
Co-Autor	Sandy Isenstadt, Susan Strasser, David Ames, Lance Winn
Zusatzinfo	32
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 238 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-64453-049-X / 164453049X
ISBN-13	978-1-64453-049-8 / 9781644530498
Zustand	Neuware