Clarity, Cut, and Culture
The Many Meanings of Diamonds
Images of diamonds appear everywhere in Americanculture. And everyone who has a diamond has a story to tell about it. Ourstories about diamonds not only reveal what we do with these tinystones, but also suggest how we create value, meaning, and identity through ourinteractions with material culture in general.Things become meaningful through our interactions with them, but how dopeople go about making meaning? What can we learn from an ethnography about theproduction of identity, creation of kinship, and use of diamondsin understanding selves and social relationships? By what means dopeople positioned within a globalized political-economy and…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4798-7743-0
- EAN: 9781479877430
- Produktnummer: 22579203
- Verlag: NYU Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'725 KB
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