Suitably Modern Making Middle-Class Culture in a New Consumer Society

Name: Suitably Modern Making Middle-Class Culture in a New Consumer Society
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ISBN: 9780691095936

ISBN-10: 0691095930

ISBN-13: 9780691095936

Edition: 2003

Authors: Mark Liechty

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Traces the growth of a new middle class in Kathmandu, as urban Nepalis harness the modern cultural resources of mass media and consumer goods to build modern identities and pioneer a new socio-cultural space in one of the world's 'least developed countries'.

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.54" wide x 9.17" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Middle-Class Construction



Modern Nepali History and the Rise of the Middle Class



Class and Consumerism



Middle-Class Consciousness:"Hanging between the High and the Low"



Consumer Culture in Kathmandu:"Playing with Your Brain"



"Doing Fashion" in Kathmandu: Class and the Consumer Public



Media Consumption in Kathmandu



The Social Practice of Cinema and Video Viewing in Kathmandu



Media Cultures: The Global in the Local



Youth and the Experience of Modernity



Constructing the Modern Youth



Modernity, Time, and Place: Youth Culture in Kathmandu



Conclusion



The Space of Class: Toward an Anthropology of Middle-Class Cultural Practice


Bibliography


Index