Anthropology and the Individual

A Material Culture Perspective

By: Daniel Miller (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 October 2009

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Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This highly original study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other perspectives on the person.

Contributors draw on approaches from material culture to create fascinating portraits of individuals, offering analytical insights that convey ethnographic encounters with often extraordinary people from Turkey, Spain and Britain to Albania, Cuba, Jamaica, Mali, Serbia and Trinidad.

Exploring relationships to places and spaces such as social networking sites, to persons such as parents, to ethical concerns such as fairness and to concepts such as the ideology of struggle, Anthropology and the Individual shows how the study of the individual can provide insights into society without losing a sense of the particularity of the person.

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...the portraits all contain a wealth of knowledge and rich data that will make this book a useful secondary source for those working in the areas it touches on, both geographical and theoretical. - Abby Loebenberg, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Customs & Traditions Philosophy Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Society & Culture Cultural Studies Material Culture Social Groups Ethnic Studies

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Individuals and the Aesthetic of Order	p. 3
Trading in Fake Brands, Self-creating as an Individual	p. 25
'Making Things Come Out': Design, Originality and the Individual in a Bògòlan Artisan Community	p. 37
Building and Ordering Transnationalism: The 'Greek House' in Albania as a Material Process	p. 51
The Christian and the Taxi Driver: Poverty and Aspiration in Rural Jamaica	p. 69
How Madrid Creates Individuals	p. 83
Aesthetics of the Self: Digital Mediations	p. 99
Unmaking Family Relationships: Belgrade Mothers and Their Migrant Children	p. 115
Fashioning Individuality and Social Connectivity among Yoruba Women in London	p. 131
Creating Order through Struggle in Revolutionary Cuba	p. 145
Food, Family, Art and God: Aesthetic Authority in Public Life in Trinidad	p. 159
Index	p. 179
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Anthropology and the Individual

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