Multi-disciplinary studies of consumption have proliferated in the last two decades. Heavily
influenced by notions of 'the consumer'and tenets of 'the cultural turn', explanations have …

A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship
with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the …

This title draws on Strathern ’s interest in the reification of social relations. If the world is
shrinking in terms of resources and their access, it is expanding in terms of new candidates …

Nesta coletânea de 15 dos artigos mais influentes da antropóloga britânica Marilyn
Strathern, publicados entre 1980 e 2004, a autora de O gênero da dádiva aborda temas …

The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know
what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in …

Digital Ethnography outlines an approach to doing ethnography in a contemporary world. It
invites researchers to consider how we live and research in a digital, material and sensory …

An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the
human body, from prehistory to the present. An increasingly influential school of thought in …

Esta obra es el resultado del rico e innovador trabajo que realizan los miembros del Digital
Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) de la RMIT University, Australia. Un trabajo agudo e …

In Beyond the Score: Music as Performance, author Nicholas Cook supplants the traditional
musicological notion of music as writing, asserting instead that it is as performance that …

Access-based consumption, defined as transactions that can be market mediated but where
no transfer of ownership takes place, is becoming increasingly popular, yet it is not well …