Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at University College, London. He is the author of many books, including The Comfort of Things, Stuff, and Tales from Facebook. Sophie Woodward is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester and the author of Why Women Wear What They Wear.
73 Ebooks por Daniel Miller
Sophie Woodward & Daniel Miller: Blue Jeans
This fresh and accessible ethnography offers a new vision of how society might cohere, in the face of on-going global displacement, dislocation, and migration. Drawing from intensive fieldwork in a h …
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€30.99
Daniel Miller: Tales from Facebook
Facebook is now used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world, many of whom spend several hours a day on this site. Once the preserve of youth, the largest increase in usage today is amongst …
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€18.99
Daniel Miller: Stuff
Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to ackn …
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€19.99
Daniel Miller: The Comfort of Things
What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, about what really matters to them and how they organize their lives today? This book visits an ordinary street and looks into thirty hou …
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€19.99
Daniel Miller & Zuzana Burikova: Au Pair
Many families leave their children for years to be looked after by young people about whom they know next to nothing, from places they have barely heard of. Who are these au pairs, why do they come a …
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€20.99
Daniel Miller: Consumption and Its Consequences
This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today’s most fundamental questions. What is a consumer society? Does being a consumer make us less authentic or more materialistic? H …
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€17.99
Daniel Miller: A Theory of Shopping
A Theory of Shopping offers a highly original perspective on one of our most basic everyday activities – shopping. We commonly assume that shopping is primarily concerned with individuals and materia …
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€19.99
Daniel Miller: Tales from Facebook
Facebook is now used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world, many of whom spend several hours a day on this site. Once the preserve of youth, the largest increase in usage today is amongst …
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€18.99
Daniel Miller & Zuzana Burikova: Au Pair
Many families leave their children for years to be looked after by young people about whom they know next to nothing, from places they have barely heard of. Who are these au pairs, why do they come a …
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€20.99
Daniel Miller & Jolynna Sinanan: Webcam
The use of webcam, especially through Skype, has recently become established as one more standard media technology, but so far there has been no attempt to assess its fundamental nature and consequen …
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€19.99
Daniel Miller: A Theory of Shopping
A Theory of Shopping offers a highly original perspective on one of our most basic everyday activities – shopping. We commonly assume that shopping is primarily concerned with individuals and materia …
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€19.99
Daniel Miller & Jolynna Sinanan: Webcam
The use of webcam, especially through Skype, has recently become established as one more standard media technology, but so far there has been no attempt to assess its fundamental nature and consequen …
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€19.99
Dr. Maria Miller & Daniel Miller: My American Dream
Born in a farming village in rural Spain, a young girl is faced with the harsh realities of life at an early age. Forced to be separated from her parents continents away she is raised by her grandpar …
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€10.99
Daniel Miller & Maria Miller: Mi Sueño Americano
Nacida en una aldea agrcola de una zona rural de Espaa, una mujer se enfrenta desde su niez a las duras realidades de la vida. Forzada a separarse de sus padres que emigran a Venezuela en busca de un …
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€10.99
Daniel Miller: The Comfort of People
At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships. In this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world’s leading anthropologists, examines the social worlds of people suffering from terminal or …
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€16.99
Daniel Miller: Myth Hollow
Myth Hollow is a story about a group of Bigfoots who are followed by a Bigfoot hunter. They always find a way to escape from whatever trap he has set while somehow staying undiscovered by anyone else …
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€4.49
Carlos Mondragon: Like Leaven in the Dough
In Like Leaven in the Dough: Protestant Social Thought in Latin America, 1920-1950, Carlos Mondragn, offers an introduction to the ideas of notable Protestant writers in Latin America during the firs …
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€98.60
Ian D Sharp & Harry A Atwater: Integrated Solar Fuel Generators
With the rapid worldwide increase of interest and excitement about the promise of artificial photosynthesis for renewable fuels, the research community is beginning to focus on the challenges of inte …
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€239.99
Ian D Sharp & Harry A Atwater: Integrated Solar Fuel Generators
With the rapid worldwide increase of interest and excitement about the promise of artificial photosynthesis for renewable fuels, the research community is beginning to focus on the challenges of inte …
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€239.99
Daniel Miller: Social Media in an English Village
Daniel Miller spent 18 months undertaking an ethnographic study with the residents of an English village, tracking their use of the different social media platforms. Following his study, he argues th …
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€1.49
Daniel Miller & Elisabetta Costa: How the World Changed Social Media
How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. T …
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€1.49
Daniel Miller & Jolynna Sinanan: Visualising Facebook
Since the growth of social media, human communication has become much more visual. This book presents a scholarly analysis of the images people post on a regular basis to Facebook. By including hundr …
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€1.49
Daniel Miller: Das wilde Netzwerk
Traditionell beschäftigen sich Ethnologen mit Verwandtschaftsnetzwerken, Bräuchen und Mythen bestimmter Gruppen von Menschen. Doch was passiert, wenn wir einen immer größer werdenden Anteil unseres L …
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€15.99
Daniel Miller: Weihnachten
»Das Fest ist unverbrüchlich mit dem Gefühl verbunden, daß ›wir‹ Weihnachten schon immer so gefeiert haben – selbst wenn die Familientradition darin besteht, an Heiligabend Disney-Filme anzuschauen.« …
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€11.99
Daniel Miller: Der Trost der Dinge
Über die moderne Welt sind viele diagnostische Mythen im Umlauf: Sie sei homogenisiert, individualisiert, und die isolierten Individuen gäben sich hemmungslos dem Konsum hin. Der englische Anthropolo …
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€19.99
Daniel Miller & Daniel (Series Editor) Miller: Acknowledging Consumption
A multi-disciplinary overview providing new theories, critical analyses and the latest reasearch on this very fashionable topic. Includes chapters on consumption studies in anthropology, economics, h …
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€33.42
Daniel Miller & Michael Rowlands: Domination and Resistance
The nature of power – one of the central concerns in social science – is the main theme of this wide-ranging book. Introducing a much broader historical and geographical comparative understanding of …
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€44.49
Peter Jackson & Daniel Miller: Shopping, Place and Identity
Engages in key debates in contemporary consumption and identity studies, yet presents a firmly grounded study that will complement the more speculative writing about shopping, place and identity that …
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€61.45
Peter Jackson & Daniel Miller: Shopping, Place and Identity
Engages in key debates in contemporary consumption and identity studies, yet presents a firmly grounded study that will complement the more speculative writing about shopping, place and identity that …
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€61.86
Daniel Miller & Michael Rowlands: Domination and Resistance
The nature of power – one of the central concerns in social science – is the main theme of this wide-ranging book. Introducing a much broader historical and geographical comparative understanding of …
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€61.73
Daniel Miller & Michael Rowlands: Domination and Resistance
The nature of power – one of the central concerns in social science – is the main theme of this wide-ranging book. Introducing a much broader historical and geographical comparative understanding of …
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€61.86
Daniel Miller: Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local
Worlds Apart is concerned with one of the new futures of anthropology, namely the advances in technologies which r eate an imagination of new global and local forms. It also analyses studies of the c …
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€48.64
Daniel Miller: Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local
Worlds Apart is concerned with one of the new futures of anthropology, namely the advances in technologies which r eate an imagination of new global and local forms. It also analyses studies of the c …
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€48.63
Daniel Miller: Acknowledging Consumption
A multi-disciplinary overview providing new theories, critical analyses and the latest reasearch on this very fashionable topic. Includes chapters on consumption studies in anthropology, economics, h …
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€48.87
Daniel Miller: Acknowledging Consumption
A multi-disciplinary overview providing new theories, critical analyses and the latest reasearch on this very fashionable topic. Includes chapters on consumption studies in anthropology, economics, h …
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€48.64
Daniel Miller: Material Cultures
This volume is an ethnographic study of material cultures. Incorporating local and global dimensions, a team of scholars explore the changing experiences of cultures in locations as disparate as the …
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€61.24
Daniel Miller: Material Cultures
This volume is an ethnographic study of material cultures. Incorporating local and global dimensions, a team of scholars explore the changing experiences of cultures in locations as disparate as the …
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€61.75
Daniel (Amarillo ISD, USA) Miller: Animal Ethics and Theology
In this book, Daniel K. Miller articulates a new vision of human and animal relationships based on the foundational love ethic within Christianity. Framed around Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan, …
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€59.11
Daniel (Amarillo ISD, USA) Miller: Animal Ethics and Theology
In this book, Daniel K. Miller articulates a new vision of human and animal relationships based on the foundational love ethic within Christianity. Framed around Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan, …
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€58.86
Mirca Madianou & Daniel Miller: Migration and New Media
How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by t …
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€48.62
Mirca Madianou & Daniel Miller: Migration and New Media
How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by t …
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€48.90
Daniel Miller & Sophie Woodward: Global Denim
On any given day nearly half the world”s population is wearing blue jeans. This is entirely extraordinary. Yet there has never been a serious attempt to understand the causes, nature and consequence …
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€36.89
Daniel Miller: Starting a Small Restaurant – Revised Edition
More than 100 new restaurants open ‘every day’ and the truth is, most of them don’t make it. This is a fully-updated edition of the classic guide to opening a small restaurant successfully, be it a b …
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€14.99
Daniel Miller & Laila Abed Rabho: The Global Smartphone
The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in communities in Afr …
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€1.49
Pauline Garvey & Daniel Miller: Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland
There are not many books about how people get younger. It doesn’t happen very often. But Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland documents a radical change in the experience of ageing. Based on two ethnog …
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€1.49
Daniel Miller: Home Possessions
Although so much of the life we care about takes place at home, this private space often remains behind closed doors and is notoriously difficult for researchers to infiltrate. We may think it is jus …
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€46.26
Daniel Miller: Anthropology and the Individual
Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This highly original study demonstrates how methods of social analysis …
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€46.20
Daniel Miller: Home Possessions
Although so much of the life we care about takes place at home, this private space often remains behind closed doors and is notoriously difficult for researchers to infiltrate. We may think it is jus …
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€45.89
Daniel Miller: Modernity – An Ethnographic Approach
From cultural studies, sociology, media studies, gender studies and elsewhere there have been a spate of books recently which have attempted to characterize the state of modernity. Many of these have …
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€48.87
James G. Carrier & Daniel Miller: Virtualism
We live in a time of economic virtualism, whereby our lives are made to conform to the virtual reality of economic thought. Globalization, transnational capitalism, structural adjustment programmes a …
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€45.73
Agnes Gayraud: Dialectic of Pop
A philosophical exploration of pop music that reveals a rich, self-reflexive art form with unsuspected depths.In the first major philosophical treatise on the subject, Agnes Gayraud explores all the …
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€76.79
Daniel Miller: Capitalism
This provocative book challenges many of our ingrained assumptions about the direction of contemporary capitalism and offers fresh perspectives that will inform the development of a new and relevant …
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€48.62
Daniel Miller: Car Cultures
Anyone who assumes that a car is simply a means to get from point A to point B, or who even thinks that they know what a car is, should read this book. Profoundly shaped by culture, the car gives ris …
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€46.20
Heather Horst & Daniel Miller: Cell Phone
Few modern innovations have spread quite so quickly as the cell phone. This technology has transformed communication throughout the world. Mobile telecommunications have had a dramatic effect in many …
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€42.05
Daniel Miller: Capitalism
This provocative book challenges many of our ingrained assumptions about the direction of contemporary capitalism and offers fresh perspectives that will inform the development of a new and relevant …
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€48.77
Daniel Miller: Car Cultures
Anyone who assumes that a car is simply a means to get from point A to point B, or who even thinks that they know what a car is, should read this book. Profoundly shaped by culture, the car gives ris …
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€45.75
Daniel Miller: Anthropology and the Individual
Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This highly original study demonstrates how methods of social analysis …
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€46.32
Heather Horst & Daniel Miller: Cell Phone
Few modern innovations have spread quite so quickly as the cell phone. This technology has transformed communication throughout the world. Mobile telecommunications have had a dramatic effect in many …
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€42.46
Daniel Miller & Don Slater: The Internet
This pathbreaking book is the first to provide a rigorous and comprehensive examination of Internet culture and consumption. A rich ethnography of Internet use, the book offers a sustained account no …
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€41.92
Daniel Miller & Don Slater: The Internet
This pathbreaking book is the first to provide a rigorous and comprehensive examination of Internet culture and consumption. A rich ethnography of Internet use, the book offers a sustained account no …
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€42.41
James G. Carrier & Daniel Miller: Virtualism
We live in a time of economic virtualism, whereby our lives are made to conform to the virtual reality of economic thought. Globalization, transnational capitalism, structural adjustment programmes a …
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€46.21
Daniel Miller: Modernity – An Ethnographic Approach
From cultural studies, sociology, media studies, gender studies and elsewhere there have been a spate of books recently which have attempted to characterize the state of modernity. Many of these have …
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€48.77
Maria Miller & Daniel Miller: My American Dream
Born in a farming village in rural Spain, a young girl is faced with the harsh realities of life at an early age. Forced to be separated from her parents’ continents away she is raised by her grandpa …
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€4.49
Daniel Miller: The Good Enough Life
This book is a highly original exploration of what life could and should be. It juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of people living in a small Iri …
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€19.99
Judy Attfield: Wild Things
What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for ”the real thing” become so important because the high-tech world of tota …
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€27.38
Daniel Miller & Sophie Woodward: Global Denim
On any given day nearly half the world”s population is wearing blue jeans. This is entirely extraordinary. Yet there has never been a serious attempt to understand the causes, nature and consequence …
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€36.51
Judy Attfield: Wild Things
What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for ”the real thing” become so important because the high-tech world of tota …
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€27.43
Charlotte Hawkins & Patrick Awondo: An Anthropological Approach to mHealth
This book proposes a radically different anthropological approach to the development and dissemination of mobile health (m Health), a rapidly growing sector in healthcare. An Anthropological Approach …
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€1.49
Daniel Miller: Forging Political Compromise
Historians have long claimed Czechoslovakia between the world wars as an island of democracy in a sea of dictatorships. The reasons for the survival of democratic institutions in the Czechoslovak Fir …
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€54.99
Daniel Miller: Daddy, what can I do?
This illustrated children’s books is for kids who sometimes get bored and aren’t sure what to do but figure out how to tap into their imaginations with their creativity through love and support from …
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€6.43
Daniel Miller: Materiality
Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief-whether religious or secular-have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely mater …
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