Synopses & Reviews
This highly original anthropological study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other perspectives on the person.
Contributors draw on approaches from material culture to create fascinating portraits of individuals and offer analytical insights that convey ethnographic encounters with extraordinary people from the world over.
Exploring relationships to places and spaces such as social networking sites, to persons such as parents, to ethical concerns such as fairness and to ideas such as the ideology of struggle, "Anthropology and the Individual" shows how the study of the individual can provide insights into society without losing a sense of the particularity of the person.
Synopsis
Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This highly original study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other perspectives on the person.
Contributors draw on approaches from material culture to create fascinating portraits of individuals, offering analytical insights that convey ethnographic encounters with often extraordinary people from Turkey, Spain and Britain to Albania, Cuba, Jamaica, Mali, Serbia and Trinidad.
Exploring relationships to places and spaces such as social networking sites, to persons such as parents, to ethical concerns such as fairness and to ideas such as the ideology of struggle, Anthropology and the Individual shows how the study of the individual can provide insights into society without losing a sense of the particularity of the person.
Synopsis
This highly original anthropological study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other perspectives on the person.
Contributors draw on approaches from material culture to create fascinating portraits of individuals and offer analytical insights that convey ethnographic encounters with extraordinary people from the world over.
Exploring relationships to places and spaces such as social networking sites, to persons such as parents, to ethical concerns such as fairness and to ideas such as the ideology of struggle, "Anthropology and the Individual" shows how the study of the individual can provide insights into society without losing a sense of the particularity of the person.
About the Author
Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at University College London.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: D. Miller - Individuals and the Aesthetic of Order. Chapter Two: M. Crãciun- Trading in Fake Brands, self-creating as an individual. Chapter Three: B. Olesen - “Making Things Come Out:”Design, Originality and the Individual in a Bogolan Artisan Community. Chapter Four: D. Dalakoglou - Building and Ordering Transnationalism: The 'Greek House' in Albania as a Material Process Chapter Five: D. Miller - The Christian and the Taxi-driver: poverty and aspiration in rural Jamaica Chapter Six: M. Murray -How Madrid makes individuals. Chapter Seven: H. Horst - Aesthetics of the Self: Digital Mediations Chapter Eight: I. Bajiæ - Unmaking Family Relationships Belgrade Mothers and their migrant children Chapter Nine: J. Botticello - Fashioning individuality and social connectivity among Yoruba women in London Chapter Ten: A. Pertierra - Creating order through struggle in revolutionary Cuba. Chapter Eleven: G. Hosein - Food, Family, Art and God Aesthetic authority in public life in Trinidad