This review surveys an emergent methodological trend in anthropological research that
concerns the adaptation of long-standing modes of ethnographic practices to more complex …

This review contends that the study of consumption and commodities represents a major
transformation in the discipline of anthropology. It documents this metamorphosis by …

Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium provides an account of the changing world of
archaeological theory and a challenge to more traditional narratives of archaeological …

The Millennium Dome, Braveheart and Rolls Royce cars. How do cultural icons reproduce
and transform a sense of national identity? How does national identity vary across time and …

This article develops a new theory of polymedia in order to understand the consequences of
digital media in the context of interpersonal communication. Drawing on illustrative …

Students of the intersection between monetary transfers and intimate social relations face a
choice among three ways of analyzing that relationship: as hostile worlds whose contact …

* What is ethnography in social research?* To what use can ethnographic data be put?*
Who are its fiercest critics?* Does ethnography have a future? Ethnography is one of the …

This pathbreaking book is the first to provide a rigorous and comprehensive examination of
Internet culture and consumption. A rich ethnography of Internet use, the book offers a …

FOR MANY PURPOSES THE MAIN division in the street where I conducted fieldwork lies
between the council estates on one side and the private housing on the other. But the …

Car cultures have social, material and, above all, affective dimensions that are overlooked in
current strategies to influence car-driving decisions. Car consumption is never simply about …