Title: Modernity, an ethnographic approach
First published: 1994
Description: "Ethnography of Trinidad focuses on processes of mass consumption. Asserts that Trinidadians confront problems of 'modernity' (focus on the present as divorced from the past, concomitant need to recreate moral premises, sense of 'compression of space-time,' sense of instability, desire for subjective experience, 'sense of the private'), and construct their 'selves' and their culture through consumption. Trinidad manifests 'a culture which is self-constructed, in full knowledge that it is in fact self-constructed.'"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Ethnology, Economic conditions, Consumption (Economics), Ethnology, west indies, Trinidad and tobago, Ethnologie, Consommation (Économie politique), Conditions économiques, Mœurs et coutumes, 73.06 ethnography, Economic history, Manners and customs, Modernität, Verbraucherverhalten, Moderniteit, Consumptiemaatschappij, Consommation, Identité collective, Conditions sociales, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Anthropology, General, Ethnology--trinidad and tobago, Consumption (economics)--trinidad and tobago, Ethnology--trinidad and tobago--trinidad, Consumption (economics)--trinidad and tobago--trinidad, Gn564.t7 m55 1994, 306/.0972983
Places: Trinidad
LC classification: GN564.T7 M55 1994