Materializing Difference

Materializing Difference

Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma

Berta, Peter

University of Toronto Press

04/2019

390

Dura

Inglês

9781487500573

15 a 20 dias

760

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Introduction: Translocal Communities of Practice and Multi-Sited Ethnographies

Part I. Negotiating and Materializing Difference and Belonging
1. Symbolic Arenas and Trophies of the Politics of Difference
2. The Gabors' Prestige Economy: A Translocal, Ethnicized, Informal, and Gendered Consumer Subculture
3. From Antiques to Prestige Objects: De- and Re-contextualizing Commodities from the European Antiques Market
4. Creating Symbolic and Material Patina
5. The Politics of Brokerage: Bazaar-Style Trade and Risk Management
6. Political Face-Work and Transcultural Bricolage/Hybridity: Prestige Objects in Political Discourse

Part II. Contesting Consumer Subcultures: Interethnic Trade, Fake Authenticity, and Classification Struggles
7. Gabor Roma, Carhar Roma, and the European Antiques Market: Contesting Consumer Subcultures
8. Interethnic Trade of Prestige Objects
9. Constructing, Commodifying, and Consuming Fake Authenticity
10. The Politics of Consumption: Classification Struggles, Moral Criticism, and Stereotyping

Part III. Multi-Sited Commodity Ethnographies
11. Things-In-Motion: Methodological Fetishism, Multi-Sitedness, and the Biographical Method
12. Prestige Objects, Marriage Politics, and the Manipulation of Nominal Authenticity: The Biography of a Beaker, 2000-2007
13. Proprietary Contest, Business Ethics, and Conflict Management: The Biography of a Roofed Tankard, 1992-2012

Conclusion: The Post-Socialist Consumer Revolution and the Shifting Meanings of Prestige Goods
Material culture; prestige consumption; politics of difference; ethnicity; authenticity; interethnic trade; commodity ethnographies; socialism and post-socialism; Romanian Roma; European antiques market; Gabor Roma