MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 93023406
003 DLC
005 20060718182242.0
008 930812s1994 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 93023406
020 $a0854969160 (cloth) :$c$49.95
020 $a0854969179 (paper) :$c$16.95
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aGN564.T7$bM55 1994
082 00 $a306/.0972983$220
100 1 $aMiller, Daniel,$d1954-
245 10 $aModernity, an ethnographic approach :$bdualism and mass consumption in Trinidad /$cDaniel Miller.
260 $aOxford ;$aProvidence, RI :$bBerg,$c1994.
300 $a340 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 323-333) and index.
520 1 $a"Ethnography of Trinidad focuses on processes of mass consumption. Asserts that Trinidadians confront problems of 'modernity' (focus on the present as divorced from the past, concomitant need to recreate moral premises, sense of 'compression of space-time,' sense of instability, desire for subjective experience, 'sense of the private'), and construct their 'selves' and their culture through consumption. Trinidad manifests 'a culture which is self-constructed, in full knowledge that it is in fact self-constructed.'"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.$uhttp://www.loc.gov/hlas/
650 0 $aEthnology$zTrinidad and Tobago$zTrinidad.
650 0 $aConsumption (Economics)$zTrinidad and Tobago$zTrinidad.
651 0 $aTrinidad$xEconomic conditions.
651 0 $aTrinidad$xSocial life and customs.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0601/93023406-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0601/93023406-d.html