Materializing Difference : : Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma / / Peter Berta.
How do objects mediate human relationships, and possess their own social and political agency? What role does material culture – such as prestige consumption as well as commodity aesthetics, biographies, and ownership histories – play in the production of social and political identities, differences...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anthropological Horizons
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (390 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Translocal Communities of Practice and Multi-Sited Ethnographies
- PART ONE Negotiating and Materializing Difference and Belonging
- 1 Symbolic Arenas and Trophies of the Politics of Difference
- 2 The Gabors’ Prestige Economy: A Translocal, Ethnicized, Informal, and Gendered Consumer Subculture
- 3 From Antiques to Prestige Objects: De- and Recontextualizing Commodities from the European Antiques Market
- 4 Creating Symbolic and Material Patina
- 5 The Politics of Brokerage: Bazaar-Style Trade and Risk Management
- 6 Political Face-Work and Transcultural Bricolage/Hybridity: Prestige Objects in Political Discourse
- PART TWO Contesting Consumer Subcultures: Interethnic Trade, Fake Authenticity, and Classification Struggles
- 7 Gabor Roma, Ca˘rhar Roma, and the European Antiques Market: Contesting Consumer Subcultures
- 8 Interethnic Trade of Prestige Objects
- 9 Constructing, Commodifying, and Consuming Fake Authenticity
- 10 The Politics of Consumption: Classification Struggles, Moral Criticism, and Stereotyping
- PART THREE Multi-Sited Commodity Ethnographies
- 11 Things-in-Motion: Methodological Fetishism, Multi-Sitedness, and the Biographical Method
- 12 Prestige Objects, Marriage Politics, and the Manipulation of Nominal Authenticity: The Biography of a Beaker, 2000–2007
- 13 Proprietary Contest, Business Ethics, and Conflict Management: The Biography of a Roofed Tankard, 1992–2012
- Conclusion The Post-Socialist Consumer Revolution and the Shifting Meanings of Prestige Goods
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Anthropological Horizons