Harold Wilhite

Gebundenes Buch

Consumption and the Transformation of Everyday Life

A View from South India

Beschreibung

Harold Wilhite makes an important new contribution to the interpretation of changing consumption in India, using an ethnographic approach to interrogate the rapid growth in the consumption of household durables, beauty and cleanliness products, exploring how the engagement of local practices with the globalizing economy result in change.

Autor

Harold Wilhite is Associate Professor at the University of Oslo's Centre for Development and Environment, Norway. He has carried out anthropological research in several regions of the World, including the USA, Norway, Japan and India. He has published on consumption, development and sustainable energy use.

Produktdetails

• Consumption and Public Life
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-54254-9
• 2008 edition
• Seitenzahl: 205
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9780230542549
• ISBN-10: 0230542549
• Artikelnr.: 24424027

Rezensionen

'Critical to the future of the planet is a better understanding of how populations, which are just entering the world of mass consumption, make changes that radically effect energy use and the environment. This book fully achieves this goal by focusing upon changes in the social conventions of everyday life, their causes and their consequences. The book shines a light on the places we need to examine if we really want to appreciate both the causes and consequences of modern consumption.'

Professor Daniel Miller, University College London.