Unwrapping Christmas / edited by Daniel Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Daniel, 1954- editor.

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christmas--Cross-cultural studies.

Christmas.

Gifts--Cross-cultural studies.

Gifts.

Materialism--Cross-cultural studies.

Materialism.

Cross-cultural studies.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

x, 239, [7] pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1993.

Contents:

I. Introduction. 1. A theory of Christmas / Daniel Miller; 2. Father Christmas Executed / Claude Lévi-Strauss

II. Christmas and Materialism. 3. The Rituals of Christmas Giving / James Carrier; 4. Materialism and the Making of the Modern American Christmas / Russell Belk; 5. Cinderella Christmas: Kitsch, Consumerism, and Youth in Japan / Brian Moeran and Lise Skov; 6. Christmas against Materialism in Trinidad / Daniel Miller

III. Christmas and the Family. 7. The English Christmas and the Family: Time Out and Alternative Realities / Adam Kuper; 8. Christmas Cards and the Construction of Social Relations in Britain Today / Mary Searle-Chatterjee; 9. Christmas Present: Christmas Public / Barbara Bodenhorn; 10. The Great Christmas Quarrel and Other Swedish Traditions / Orvar Löfgren.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0198279035 :

OCLC:

27768368