Consumption and the Transformation of Everyday Life

A View from South India
2008. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-54254-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 205 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Consumption and Public Life

Harold Wilhite makes an important new contribution to the interpretation of changing consumption in India, using an ethnographic approach to interrogate the rapid growth in the consumption of household durables, beauty and cleanliness products, exploring how the engagement of local practices with the globalizing economy result in change.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilhite, H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Global Interchange and Modernising Reforms Women in a Bind: the Crucible of Marriage and Dowry The Modern Housewife Exercising the Extended Family Work Migration Material, Discursive and Performative Contributions to Consumption Frictionless Political and Religious Ideologies Television: 'Everyone is Watching' Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Harold Wilhite is Associate Professor at the University of Oslo's Centre for Development and Environment, Norway. He has carried out anthropological research in several regions of the World, including the USA, Norway, Japan and India. He has published on consumption, development and sustainable energy use.