Suitably modern : making middle-class culture in a new consumer society / Mark Liechty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liechty, Mark, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics).

Middle class.

Kathmandu (Nepal)--Social conditions.

Kathmandu (Nepal).

Middle class--Nepal--Kathmandu.

Consumption (Economics)--Nepal.

Nepal.

Nepal--Kathmandu.

Physical Description:

xviii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2003]

Summary:

"This penetrating study of consumption practices in Kathmandu captures the emergence of a new kind of class-based cultural experience, one in which media images and purchased goods increasingly serve as instruments of middle-class self-fashioning. As much a study of profound transformations in Nepali society as a whole as it is an analysis of the lived reality of an emergent bourgeois sensibility, Liechty's research offers important insights into the local cultural ramifications of contemporary forms of globalization."--Stacy Pigg, Simon Fraser University

"Providing a well-grounded and at times startling picture of the creation of class identity, Liechty's work succeeds admirably in its goals to document practices of urban middle-class life and the ways these practices produce a newly constituted class. This is a strong, stimulating, and needed contribution to the exciting nascent field of class theory and ethnography in anthropology."--Sara Dickey, Bowdoin College

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-289) and index.

ISBN:

0691095922

0691095930

OCLC:

50269871

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