My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries

by Elizabeth Chin

Book Overview

Unconventional and provocative, My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology. Chin centers the book on diary entries that focus on everyday items-kitchen cabinet knobs, shoes, a piano-and uses them to intimately examine the ways consumption resonates with personal and social meaning: from writing love haikus about her favorite nail...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822361361
• ISBN13: 9780822361367
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"