
Consumption and Public Life Domesticity on Display: Romanian Middle-Class Material Culture from Late Socialism to Today, (Paperback)
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- Consumption and Public Life Domesticity on Display: Romanian Middle-Class Material Culture from Late Socialism to Today, (Paperback)
- Author: Palgrave MacMillan
- ISBN: 9783030787851
- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 2022-10-25
- Page Count: 211
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This book examines postsocialist transformations reflected in urban middle-class domestic spaces and in museums dedicated to socialism in Romania. It focuses on the significance and circulation of porcelain and crystal sets and ornaments during late socialism and after 1989, following the experiences of consumers, workers in the glassware and porcelain industry, and artists. By tracing the values and temporalities embedded in materiality, the book sheds light on how objects shape daily life in a time of cultural, economic, and social change. Drawing on ethnographic research, the book offers an in-depth analysis of the ambiguous relation between the middle-class and the socialist state, using materiality and consumption to shed light on contradictions between aspirations and resources and between official discourses and everyday practices. The book reveals changes in practices of display, gift exchange, and barter, in the perception and use of time, as well as in gender and inter-generational relations.
This work will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists and cultural historians, especially researchers interested in consumption, material culture, postsocialism, the anthropology of value and gift, the study of social time, practices of the middle-class, and the history of consumption in Eastern Europe.
- Consumption and Public Life Domesticity on Display: Romanian Middle-Class Material Culture from Late Socialism to Today, (Paperback)
- Author: Palgrave MacMillan
- ISBN: 9783030787851
- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 2022-10-25
- Page Count: 211
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