Your cart is empty
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons (UK) |
Author(s) | Daniel Miller |
Edition | 1 |
Published | 22nd May 2009 |
Related course codes |
If this is a typical street in a modern city like London, then
what kind of society is this? It?s not a community, nor a
neighbourhood, nor is it a collection of isolated individuals. It
isn?t dominated by the family. We assume that social life is
corrupted by materialism, made superficial and individualistic by a
surfeit of consumer goods, but this is misleading. If the street
isn?t any of these things, then what is it?
This brilliant and revealing portrayal of a street in modern
London, written by one the most prominent anthropologists, shows
how much is to be gained when we stop lamenting what we think we
used to be and focus instead on what we are now becoming. It
reveals the forms by which ordinary people make sense of their
lives, and the ways in which objects become our companions in the
daily struggle to make life meaningful.