Material cultures : why some things matter / edited by Daniel Miller.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.

xi, 243 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why some things matter / Daniel Miller -- Radio texture: between self and others / Jo Tacchi -- From woollen carpet to grass carpet: bridging house and garden in an English suburb / Sophie Chevalier -- Window shopping at home: classifieds, catalogues and new consumer skills / Alison J. Clarke -- The message in paper / Andrea Pellegram -- Material of culture, fabric of identity / Neil Jarman -- Calypso's consequences / Justin Finden-Crofts -- Coca-Cola: a black sweet drink from Trinidad / Daniel Miller -- Signs of the new nation: gift exchange, consumption and aid on a former collective farm in north-west Estonia / Sigrid Rausing -- At home and abroad: inalienable wealth, personal consumption and the formulations of femininity in the southern Philippines / Mark Johnson.