The comfort of things
By: Daniel Miller.
Edition: 1st paper back ed.
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780745644035; 9780745644042
Subjects: Personal belongings -- England -- London -- Psychological aspects; London (England) -- Social conditions
Description: What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, what really matters to them and how they organize their lives? In this book, anthropologist Daniel Miller visits an ordinary street to look into 30 households and to reveal the forms by which ordinary people make sense of their lives.