The comfort of things

Description:

What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, what really matters to them and how they organize their lives? In this book, anthropologist Daniel Miller visits an ordinary street to look into 30 households and to reveal the forms by which ordinary people make sense of their lives.

subjects: Social conditions,  Personal belongings,  Psychological aspects,  Consumer goods,  Great britain, economic conditions,  Business enterprises, great britain,  Material culture,  Case studies,  Personal belongings--psychological aspects,  Personal belongings--england--london--psychological aspects,  Hn398.l7 m55 2008,  306,  Regional british history - london,  British history - social aspects

Places: England,  London,  London (England)