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Author: Péter Berta
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 3.20cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.760kg
ISBN: 9781487500573
ISBN 10: 1487500572
Pages: 390
Publication Date: 01 April 2019
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Nuanced, critical and sophisticated in its analysis, Materializing Difference is an exceptional ethnography. Through its fine-grained examination of the entangled trajectories of people and things, it shows how prestige goods are agentive in the social, political and economic lives of the Gabor Roma, and may be said to bring their identity as a distinct community into being. -- Paul Basu, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, University of London In this wonderful book, Peter Berta extends an anthropological tradition, with its roots in Malinowski, that reads circulating objects as generating both politics and status, exemplified by a keen look at the poignant situation of the Roma and a brilliant object-centered ethnography of the painful journey of post-socialist societies such as Romania. -- Arjun Appadurai, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
Nuanced, critical and sophisticated in its analysis, Materializing Difference is an exceptional ethnography. Through its fine-grained examination of the entangled trajectories of people and things, it shows how prestige goods are agentive in the social, political and economic lives of the Gabor Roma, and may be said to bring their identity as a distinct community into being. -- Paul Basu, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, University of London In this wonderful book, P ter Berta extends an anthropological tradition, with its roots in Malinowski, that reads circulating objects as generating both politics and status, exemplified by a keen look at the poignant situation of the Roma and a brilliant object-centered ethnography of the painful journey of post-socialist societies such as Romania. -- Arjun Appadurai, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
In this wonderful book, Peter Berta extends an anthropological tradition, with its roots in Malinowski, that reads circulating objects as generating both politics and status, exemplified by a keen look at the poignant situation of the Roma and a brilliant object-centered ethnography of the painful journey of post-socialist societies such as Romania. -- Arjun Appadurai, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University Nuanced, critical and sophisticated in its analysis, Materializing Difference is an exceptional ethnography. Through its fine-grained examination of the entangled trajectories of people and things, it shows how prestige goods are agentive in the social, political and economic lives of the Gabor Roma, and may be said to bring their identity as a distinct community into being. -- Paul Basu, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, University of London
Author Information
Péter Berta is an Honorary Research Associate at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London, a Visiting Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London, and a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
