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Unwrapping Christmas / edited by Daniel Miller.

By: Miller, Daniel, 1954-
Language: English Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1993.Description: x, 239p. : ill., photos. ; 22cm.ISBN: 0198279035
Contents:
Contents: A theory of Christmas / Daniel Miller; Father Christmas executed / Claude Lévi-Strauss; The rituals of Christmas giving / James Carrier; Materialism and the making of the modern American Christmas / Russell Belk; Cinderella Christmas: kitsch, consumerism, and youth in Japan / Brian Moeran and Lise Skov; Christmas against materialism in Trinidad / Daniel Miller; The English Christmas and the family: time out and alternative realities / Adam Kuper; Christmas cards and the construction of social relations in Britain today / Mary Searle-Chatterjee; Christmas present: Christmas public / Barbara Bodenhorn; The great Christmas quarrel and other Swedish traditions / Orvar Löfgren.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Royal Anthropological Institute Open Shelves KFRF [MIL-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available L63099
Total holds: 0

Includes bibl. references.

Contents: A theory of Christmas / Daniel Miller; Father Christmas executed / Claude Lévi-Strauss; The rituals of Christmas giving / James Carrier; Materialism and the making of the modern American Christmas / Russell Belk; Cinderella Christmas: kitsch, consumerism, and youth in Japan / Brian Moeran and Lise Skov; Christmas against materialism in Trinidad / Daniel Miller; The English Christmas and the family: time out and alternative realities / Adam Kuper; Christmas cards and the construction of social relations in Britain today / Mary Searle-Chatterjee; Christmas present: Christmas public / Barbara Bodenhorn; The great Christmas quarrel and other Swedish traditions / Orvar Löfgren.