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Modernity, an ethnographic approach dualism and mass consumption in Trinidad

By:

Miller, Daniel

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford Berg 1994ISBN:

9780854969179

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LOC classification:

GN564.T7 M55 1994

Review: "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. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus Main Library	General Books	306.0972983 MI-M (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Gifted by Prof. J Clammer		015056

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-333) and index.

"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.

http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

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