The Comfort of Things
What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, about what really matters to them and how they organize their lives today? This book visits an ordinary street and looks into thirty households. It reveals the aspirations and frustrations, the tragedies and accomplishments that are played out behind the doors. It focuses on the things that matter to these people, which quite often turn out to be material things - their house, the dog, their music, the Christmas decorations. These are the means by which they express who they have become, and relationships to objects turn out to be central to their relationships with other people -…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7456-5536-9
- EAN: 9780745655369
- Produktnummer: 16366029
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 316 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 413 KB
Über den Autor
Daniel Miller is Professor of Material Culture at University College London.
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