The wedding present : domestic life beyond consumption /
Purbrick, Louise.
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-188) and index.
Introduction : making homes and worlds : marriage and consumption from 1945 to today -- Objects of approval -- China and pyrex : the practices of preservation -- Accounting for change : forgotten, neglected, and altered objects -- The list : domesticity, conformity, and class -- Methods : mass-observation -- Afterword : unmarried households.
Marriage customs and rites
Gifts
Economic anthropolgy
Households
Consumption (Economics)