The archaeology of consumer culture

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Americans have long identified themselves with material goods. In this study, Paul Mullins sifts through this continent's historical archaeological record to trace the evolution of North American consumer culture.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author:	Mullins, Paul R., 1962-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2011
Series:	American experience in archaeological perspective.
Subjects:	Material culture > United States. Social archaeology > United States. Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects > United States > History. Materialism > Social aspects > United States > History. Archaeology and history > United States.
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

Introduction : toward a historical archaeology of consumption
The faces of wealth : archaeologies of status, affluence, and poverty
Emulation and desire : the mechanisms of consumer demand
Consuming morals, materialism, and refinement
Consuming politics and identity
The materiality of domesticity and Victorian marketing
Conclusion : archaeologies of consumption.