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Transitions in Domestic Consumption and Family Life in the Modern Middle East
Relli . Ed(S): Shechter
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Description for Transitions in Domestic Consumption and Family Life in the Modern Middle East
Paperback. Editor(s): Shechter, Relli. Num Pages: 229 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JHB; JHM; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
The volume focuses on three countries - Egypt, Israel, and Turkey (earlier the Ottoman Empire) - in the period between the mid-nineteenth and the early Twenty-first-centuries. It studies the consumption of homes and domesticity as changing processes in space and time. It further foregrounds research into the impact of economic, political, and socio-cultural transformations on the private life of individuals. Even more so, the volume advances the discussion on the processes of restructuring of self-identity and lifestyles via acts of consumption. The volume focuses on the market where producers and consumers meet, the state and the national movements with their ... Read more
The volume focuses on three countries - Egypt, Israel, and Turkey (earlier the Ottoman Empire) - in the period between the mid-nineteenth and the early Twenty-first-centuries. It studies the consumption of homes and domesticity as changing processes in space and time. It further foregrounds research into the impact of economic, political, and socio-cultural transformations on the private life of individuals. Even more so, the volume advances the discussion on the processes of restructuring of self-identity and lifestyles via acts of consumption. The volume focuses on the market where producers and consumers meet, the state and the national movements with their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
Number of Pages
215
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349526666
SKU
V9781349526666
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99-15
About Relli . Ed(S): Shechter
AYSE BUGRA Professor of Economics, Bogazici University, Turkey TANIA FORTE Professor of Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University, Israel TALLY KATZ-GERRO Professor of Sociology, University of Haifa, Israel SONJA LADEN Professor of Comparative Literature, Tel-Aviv University, Israel NANCY MICKLEWRIGHT Professor ofArt History, The Getty Grant Program, USA LISA POLLARD Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA MONA RUSSELL Professor of History, ... Read more
Reviews for Transitions in Domestic Consumption and Family Life in the Modern Middle East
"This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on three important themes in Middle East history - consumption studies, family history and the home. It productively seeks to link the three themes and argues for the centrality of consumption to studies of the family and its relations to the larger society. The authors examine transformations in the domestic ... Read more