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Material Culture and Consumer Society
Mark Staniforth
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Description for Material Culture and Consumer Society
Hardback. Argues that material goods were a necessary adjunct to the successful colonization of Australia demonstrating that it was necessary to establish trade networks that provided adequate supplies of culturally 'appropriate' food, drink and other consumer goods for the newly arrived colonists. Series: The Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1360.
The establishment of a consumer society in Australia has not been a particularly well explored area of academic inquiry. My interests lie in the concepts and meanings that underlie the material world; ideas like, in the words of Madonna, "I am a material girl and I live in a material world" (terminology taken to be not gender specific), the classic graffiti paraphrasing of Descartes: I shop therefore I am or perhaps simply in the "world of goods" in the more academically respectable terms of Douglas and Isherwood (1979). This book arises out of my longstanding interest in the early colonial ... Read more
The establishment of a consumer society in Australia has not been a particularly well explored area of academic inquiry. My interests lie in the concepts and meanings that underlie the material world; ideas like, in the words of Madonna, "I am a material girl and I live in a material world" (terminology taken to be not gender specific), the classic graffiti paraphrasing of Descartes: I shop therefore I am or perhaps simply in the "world of goods" in the more academically respectable terms of Douglas and Isherwood (1979). This book arises out of my longstanding interest in the early colonial ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
185
Condition
New
Series
The Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology
Number of Pages
185
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306473869
SKU
V9780306473869
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Reviews for Material Culture and Consumer Society
From the reviews: "Staniforth's work offers particular strengths to those engaged in the study of consumer society and capitalism...this work will remain important as part of the bridge between land and sea." (Stacy C. Kozakavich, Historical Archaeology)