{"product_id":"materializing-difference-consumer-culture-politics-and-ethnicity-among-romanian-roma-paperback-softback-9781487520403","title":"Materializing Difference; Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity Among Romanian Roma (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487520403","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMaterializing Difference\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eConsumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity Among Romanian Roma\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePéter Berta (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487520403\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 April 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e390 pages, 34 colour illustrations, 6 b\u0026amp;w tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.62 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do objects mediate human relationships, and possess their own social and political agency? What role does material culture – such as prestige consumption as well as commodity aesthetics, biographies, and ownership histories – play in the production of social and political identities, differences, and hierarchies? How do (informal) consumer subcultures of collectors organize and manage themselves? Drawing on theories from anthropology and sociology, specifically material culture, consumption, museum, ethnicity, and post-socialist studies, \u003ci\u003eMaterializing Difference\u003c\/i\u003e addresses these questions via analysis of the practices and ideologies connected to Gabor Roma beakers and roofed tankards made of antique silver. The consumer subculture organized around these objects – defined as ethnicized and gendered prestige goods by the Gabor Roma living in Romania – is a contemporary, second-hand culture based on patina-oriented consumption.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaterializing Difference\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the inner dynamics of the complex relationships and interactions between objects (silver beakers and roofed tankards) and subjects (Romanian Roma) and investigates how these relationships and interactions contribute to the construction, materialization, and reformulation of social, economic, and political identities, boundaries, and differences. It also discusses how, after 1989, the political transformation in Romania led to the emergence of a new, post-socialist consumer sensitivity among the Gabor Roma, and how this sensitivity reshaped the pre-regime-change patterns, meanings, and value preferences of prestige consumption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Translocal Communities of Practice and Multi-Sited Ethnographies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I. Negotiating and Materializing Difference and Belonging\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Symbolic Arenas and Trophies of the Politics of Difference\u003cbr\u003e2.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe Gabors\u0026amp;#x2019; Prestige Economy: A Translocal, Ethnicized, Informal, and Gendered Consumer Subculture\u003cbr\u003e3.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eFrom Antiques to Prestige Objects: De- and Re-contextualizing Commodities from the European Antiques Market\u003cbr\u003e4.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eCreating Symbolic and Material Patina\u003cbr\u003e5.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe Politics of Brokerage: Bazaar-Style Trade and Risk Management\u003cbr\u003e6.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ePolitical Face-Work and Transcultural Bricolage\/Hybridity: Prestige Objects in Political Discourse\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II. Contesting Consumer Subcultures: Interethnic Trade, Fake Authenticity, and Classification Struggles\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eGabor Roma, Cărhar Roma, and the European Antiques Market: Contesting Consumer Subcultures\u003cbr\u003e8.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eInterethnic Trade of Prestige Objects\u003cbr\u003e9.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eConstructing, Commodifying, and Consuming Fake Authenticity\u003cbr\u003e10.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe Politics of Consumption: Classification Struggles, Moral Criticism, and Stereotyping\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart III. Multi-Sited Commodity Ethnographies\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e11. Things-In-Motion: Methodological Fetishism, Multi-Sitedness, and the Biographical Method\u003cbr\u003e12. Prestige Objects, Marriage Politics, and the Manipulation of Nominal Authenticity: The Biography of a Beaker, 2000-2007\u003cbr\u003e13. Proprietary Contest, Business Ethics, and Conflict Management: The Biography of a Roofed Tankard, 1992-2012\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Post-Socialist Consumer Revolution and the Shifting Meanings of Prestige Goods\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595492749592,"sku":"9781487520403","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/materializing-difference-consumer-culture-politics-and-ethnicity-among-romanian-roma-paperback-softback-9781487520403","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}