Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter

AcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors1: Why some things matter Daniel Miller2: Radio texture: between self and others Jo Tacchi3: From woollen carpet to grass carpet: bridging house and garden in an English suburb Sophie Chevalier4: Window shopping at home: classifieds, catalogues and new consumer skills Alison J. Clarke5: The message in paper Andrea Pellegram6: Material of culture, fabric of identity Neil Jarman7: Calypso's consequences Justin Finden-Crofts8: Coca-Cola: a black sweet drink from Trinidad Daniel Miller9: Signs of the new nation: gift exchange, consumption and aid on a former collective farm in north-west Estonia Sigrid Rausing10: At home and abroad: inalienable wealth, personal consumption and the formulations of femininity in the southern Philippines Mark JohnsonIndex