The archaeology of consumer culture / Paul R. Mullins ; foreword by Michael S. Nassaney.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:American experience in archaeological perspective.
Main Author: Mullins, Paul R., 1962-
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2011], ©2011.
Series:American experience in archaeological perspective.
Subjects:
Material culture > United States.
Social archaeology > United States.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects > United States > History.
Materialism > Social aspects > United States > History.
Archaeology and history > United States.
Physical Description:xii, 212 pages : illustrations.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : toward a historical archaeology of consumption
  • The faces of wealth : archaeologies of status, affluence, and poverty
  • Emulation and desire : the mechanisms of consumer demand
  • Consuming morals, materialism, and refinement
  • Consuming politics and identity
  • The materiality of domesticity and Victorian marketing
  • Conclusion : archaeologies of consumption.