Goods, Power, History - Latin America''s Material Culture

Klappentext Explores the history of material culture and consumption in Latin America over the past 500 years. Zusammenfassung This book explores the history of material culture and consumption in Latin America over the past 500 years in the categories of food! clothing! shelter! and public or private space. Consumption is related to the importance of ritual and identity within the ethnic and class arrangements imposed by colonial and post-colonial societies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Material landscape; 3. Contact goods; 4. Civilizing goods; 5. Modernizing goods; 6. Developing goods; 7. Global goods.

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• Authors: Arnold J. Bauer, Arnold J. (University of California Bauer, Bauer Arnold J.
• Assisted by: Stuart Schwartz (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2001
• EAN: 9780521777025
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77702-5
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: New Approaches to the Americas; New Approaches to the Americas
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Latin America, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, macroeconomics, c 1500 onwards to present day, Social and cultural anthropology, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards