The archaeology of consumer culture
By: Paul R. Mullins ; foreword by Michael S. Nassaney
Series: The American experience in archaeological perspective
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780813037509
Subjects: Material culture; Consumption (Economics); Archaeology and history; History; Social archaeology; Materialism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : toward a historical archaeology of consumption; title: The faces of wealth : archaeologies of status, affluence, and poverty; title: Emulation and desire : the mechanisms of consumer demand; title: Consuming morals, materialism, and refinement; title: Consuming politics and identity; title: The materiality of domesticity and Victorian marketing; title: Conclusion : archaeologies of consumption.