The Wedding Present: Domestic Life Beyond Consumption
| AUTHOR | Purbrick, Louise |
| PUBLISHER | Routledge (01/02/2007) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Hardcover) |
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In this fascinating work, Louise Purbrick offers an alternative analysis of contemporary domestic consumption. She investigates the ritualized presentation of objects upon marriage, and their subsequent cycles of exchange within the domestic sphere. Presenting new material on the enactment of exchange relationships within everyday domesticity, The Wedding Present makes significant historical, theoretical and methodological contributions to the analysis of contemporary consumption.
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ISBN-13:
9780754644729
ISBN-10:
0754644723
Binding:
Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
209
Carton Quantity:
34
Product Dimensions:
6.14 x 0.50 x 9.21 inches
Weight:
1.04 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Index
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Reference | Weddings
Reference | Sociology - General
Dewey Decimal:
392.5
Library of Congress Control Number:
2006013185
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In this fascinating work, Louise Purbrick offers an alternative analysis of contemporary domestic consumption. She investigates the ritualized presentation of objects upon marriage, and their subsequent cycles of exchange within the domestic sphere. Presenting new material on the enactment of exchange relationships within everyday domesticity, The Wedding Present makes significant historical, theoretical and methodological contributions to the analysis of contemporary consumption.
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Author:
Purbrick, Louise
LOUISE PURBRICK is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton, UK. She is author of "The Architecture of Containment in D. Wylie, The Maze" (Granta, 2004) and, with John Schofield and Axel Klausmeier, editor of "Re-Mapping the Field: New Approaches to Conflict Archaeology" (Westkreuz-Verlag, 2006). She also works on the material culture of everyday life and has written "The Wedding Present: Domestic Life beyond Consumption" (Ashgate, 2007)
JIM AULICH is Reader in Visual Culture and is based in Manchester Institute of Research in Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His forthcoming publications include "Seduction or Instruction: First World War Posters in Britain and Europe" (Manchester University Press) and he is currently curating a major exhibition of Twentieth century war posters from the collection of the Imperial War Museum to be held in 2007
GRAHAM DAWSON is a cultural historian at the University of Brighton, UK, whose research has focused on the inter-relation of cultural memory, narrative and identity, and the memory of war in modernity. He is author of "Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire and the Imagining of Masculinities" (London and New York, 1994), and a co-editor and contributor to "Trauma: Life Stories of Survivors, and Commemorating War: The Politics of Memory" (both Piscataway, New Jersey, 2004). He is currently completing a book on cultural memory, the Irish Troubles and the peace process for Manchester University Press.
JIM AULICH is Reader in Visual Culture and is based in Manchester Institute of Research in Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His forthcoming publications include "Seduction or Instruction: First World War Posters in Britain and Europe" (Manchester University Press) and he is currently curating a major exhibition of Twentieth century war posters from the collection of the Imperial War Museum to be held in 2007
GRAHAM DAWSON is a cultural historian at the University of Brighton, UK, whose research has focused on the inter-relation of cultural memory, narrative and identity, and the memory of war in modernity. He is author of "Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire and the Imagining of Masculinities" (London and New York, 1994), and a co-editor and contributor to "Trauma: Life Stories of Survivors, and Commemorating War: The Politics of Memory" (both Piscataway, New Jersey, 2004). He is currently completing a book on cultural memory, the Irish Troubles and the peace process for Manchester University Press.
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