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Material Culture and Consumer Society - Dependent Colonies in Colonial Australia (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003)
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Material Culture and Consumer Society - Dependent Colonies in Colonial Australia (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003)
Series: The Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology
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The establishment of a consumer society in Australia has not been a
particularly well explored area of academic inquiry. My interests
lie in the concepts and meanings that underlie the material world;
ideas like, in the words of Madonna, "I am a material girl and I
live in a material world" (terminology taken to be not gender
specific), the classic graffiti paraphrasing of Descartes: I shop
therefore I am or perhaps simply in the "world of goods" in the
more academically respectable terms of Douglas and Isherwood
(1979). This book arises out of my longstanding interest in the
early colonial period in Australia. In part it represents an
extension of the purely "historical" research conducted for my
Master's thesis in the Department of History at the University of
Sydney which explored aspects of the diet, health and lived
experience of con victs and immigrants during their voyages to the
Australian colonies within the timeframe 1837 to 1839 (Staniforth,
1993a). More importantly, it is the culmina tion of more than
twenty-five years involvement in the excavation of shipwreck sites
in Australia starting with James Matthews (1841) in 1974, through
the test excavation of William Salthouse in 1982, continuing with
my involvement between 1985 and 1994 in the excavation of Sydney
Cove (1797) and most recently with shore-based whaling stations and
whaling shipwreck sites. In this respect, this book may be seen as
an example of what Ian Hodder (1986, p.
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