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Domesticity on Display - Romanian Middle-Class Material Culture from Late Socialism to Today (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Domesticity on Display - Romanian Middle-Class Material Culture from Late Socialism to Today (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Consumption and Public Life
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Total price: R3,533
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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.
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