Unwrapping Christmas / edited by Daniel Miller.
By: Miller, Daniel
Language: English Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1993.Description: x, 239p. : ill., photos. ; 22cm.ISBN: 0198279035| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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British Museum | Royal Anthropological Institute | Open Shelves | KFRF [MIL-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | L63099 |
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.