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Cargando... Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in Americapor Wendy A. Woloson
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. While the cover might suggest a light read lies in wait, that this is a publication of the University of Chicago tells you that it's really rather dense. It is also a little less coherent than I might have hoped, though perhaps that is a commentary on the material subject. Be that as it may, Woloson does deliver on the topic, though it would be more accurate to say that this is really a collection of parallel histories of various business models; Yankee peddlers, five & ten stores, "giftware," mass-produced collectibles, obnoxious "novelty" items, and so on. What all these things have in common is the ability to appeal for the American taste for novelty and cheapness, sourcing from easily exploited work forces, and the reality that no one needs most of this stuff, though wave after wave of "commemorative" items, unwanted gifts, and impractical kitchen items keep piling up, until they represented actual sources of psychological and physical toxicity. Woloson is alternately amused and horrified by this stuff, and I suspect that you'll be too at the end of this work. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"Wendy Woloson considers seriously the detritus of everyday consumerist Western lives--a category that comprises objects that function as art, jokes, tools, embodiments of fantasies, cultural signifiers, status symbols, and much more; a.k.a. "crap." She seeks to use these possessions to illuminate our society, culture, and economy. Why do we--as individuals and as a culture--have these things? Where do they come from, and why do we want them? In her words, this investigation "brings together material culture, consumer culture, behavioral economics, cultural economics, the histories of industrialization, capitalism and international trade, among other disciplines." Also, there's a Lightning Sausage"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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