Aesthetic Authority
Aesthetic Economy
Albanian Migrants
Ann's Parents
Ann’s Parents
anthropologist
anthropology
Carnival Committee
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Cuban Women
cultural aesthetics theory
digital self-representation
Dorm Room
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eq_society-politics
ethnographic methodology
Fake Brand
Gem
Girl Friend
Good Life
Greek House
identity formation studies
individual agency in material culture
Manuel's Case
Manuel’s Case
material culture
Mineral Dyes
MySpace Page
MySpace Profile
Northern Albania
qualitative social analysis
Recent Innovative Approaches
Rural Jamaica
Santiago De Cuba
Serbian Migration
Social Network Sites
social networking sites
transnational migration research
Vice Versa
Yoruba Women
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781847884947
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 concepts 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.
Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology, University College London.
