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McCullough, Aaron Wayne.

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Inalienable interiors: Consumerism and anthropology, 1890 to 1920.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Inalienable interiors: Consumerism and anthropology, 1890 to 1920./
作者:	McCullough, Aaron Wayne.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
面頁冊數:	196 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-05A(E).
標題:	American studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10250330
ISBN:	9781369433333

Inalienable interiors: Consumerism and anthropology, 1890 to 1920.
McCullough, Aaron Wayne.

Inalienable interiors: Consumerism and anthropology, 1890 to 1920. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 196 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2016.

In this dissertation, I examine how and why anthropology became a significant discourse through which consumers, taste makers, and authors attempted to understand and navigate the consumer marketplace of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States. Anthropology, in its focus on "primitive" material cultures, perceived primitive objects as unconscious and unchanging expressions of identities defined by culture, race, or natural physiography. In a marketplace of alienable commodities, of objects circulating not only from producer to consumer, but also within and across the boundaries of identities, anthropology allowed consumers a discourse through which they could understand the objects of others; and through which they could imagine, identify, or idealize objects that expressed their own racial, national, class, or cultural identity. I call the consumer that emerged from this discourse of consumption, borrowing from historian James Clifford, an ethnographic consumer: an anthropologically aware, rational, consumer self, capable of navigating a cosmopolitan marketplace by perceiving and idealizing objects as cultural. I trace this figure, a version of Walter Benjamin's flâneur, through the writings of Arts and Crafts polemicist Irene Sargent, through the pages of The Craftsman magazine she edited, and out into other marketplaces such as the world's fairs of the early twentieth century. If anthropology was used to evaluate and navigate a marketplace of alienable objects, it was also used to imagine a domestic material culture: in the dreams of fiction and the practice of architectural design, the hut was a locus of withdrawal, an imagined place where the material objects that composed the home could securely express race, culture, class, or nationality. And in both the marketplace and the domestic interior, the idea of a primitive material culture allowed white, middle class consumers to identify their own and other's inalienable material cultures, while displacing this static version of material culture onto the primitive. This displacement allowed consumers to ultimately claim the mobility and rationality of a modern self. Yet objects posed difficulties for those who would attempt to identify them as expressive of a particular identity. As Will Cather shows in The Song of the Lark, the objects we create circulate across the borders of individual or collective meaning systems and, in their simple material persistence, beyond the life of an individual or collective identity, oppose our attempts to define them.

ISBN: 9781369433333Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122720
American studies.

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