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Modernity - An Ethnographic Approach: Dualism and Mass Consumption in Trinidad
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Modernity - An Ethnographic Approach: Dualism and Mass Consumption in Trinidad Paperback - 1994

by Daniel Miller


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From cultural studies, sociology, media studies, gender studies and elsewhere there have been a spate of books recently which have attempted to characterize the state of modernity. Many of these have also argued that what is required is an ethnographic work to determine how far these supposed trends actually apply to a given population. This book explicitly accepts this challenge and, in so doing, demonstrates the potential of modern anthropology studies. It starts by summarizing some debates on modernity and then argues that the Caribbean island of Trinidad is particularly apt for such a study given the origins of its population in slavery and indentured labour, both forms of extreme social rupture. The particular focus of this book is on mass consumption and the way goods and imported images such as soap opera have been used to express and develop a number of key contradictions of modernity. It will be of interest to anthropologists looking for a new potential for the discipline, as well as students in other fields who will be interested in the new contribution of anthropology to their debates.

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From cultural studies, sociology, media studies, gender studies and elsewhere there has been a spate of books recently which have attempted to characterize the state of modernity. Many of these have also argued that what is required is ethnographic work to determine how far these supposed trends actually apply to a given population. This book explicitly accepts this challenge. It starts by summarizing some debates on modernity and then argues that the Carribean island of Trinidad is particularly apt for such a study, given the origins of its population in slavery and indentured labour, both forms of extreme social rupture, and the subsequent development of creolisation, the transnational family and economic dependency. The particular focus of this book is on mass consumption and the way goods and imported images such as the soap opera have been used to express and develop a number of key contradictions of modernity. Trinidad also provides considerable material for qualifying and disputing many of the generalisations made in the literature of modernity and postmodernism, for example, the use of concepts such as superficiality, individualism and style.

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  • Title Modernity - An Ethnographic Approach: Dualism and Mass Consumption in Trinidad
  • Author Daniel Miller
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 348
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, Oxford
  • Date 1994-04-19
  • ISBN 9780854969173 / 0854969179
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.7 x 6.04 x 0.72 in (22.10 x 15.34 x 1.83 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Trinidad - Social life and customs, Ethnology - Trinidad and Tobago - Trinidad
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93023406
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.097

About the author

Daniel Miller Professor of Anthropology, University College London. Recent books include 'A Theory of Shopping', 'The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach' (with Don Slater) and Ed. 'Car Cultures'
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