Native Leisure Class Consumption and Cultural Creativity in the Andes

Name: Native Leisure Class Consumption and Cultural Creativity in the Andes
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ISBN: 9780226113951

ISBN-10: 0226113957

ISBN-13: 9780226113951

Edition: 1999 (Reprint)

Authors: Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld

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Tracing the connections among newly invented craft traditions, social networks and consumption patterns, this book highlights the way ethnic identities and class cultures materialise in a sensual world.

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 259
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Prologue: Andean Livelihoods in a Global Economy



Affluence, Consumption, and Cultural Improvisation



Outsider's Wealth: Race and Advancement, 1930-94



"Useless Things": Subsistence Ethics and Native Identity



Otavalo's Transnational Archipelago



The Artisan as Consumer: Commercial Faja-Weaving



The Native Leisure Class


Epilogue: Consumption and Cultural Concentration in the Andes


References


Cited Index