Transitions in domestic consumption and family life in the modern Middle East :
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[Book]
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houses in motion /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Relli Shechter.
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New York :
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Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2003.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xiv, 215 pages ;
Dimensions
22 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Working by the book : constructing new homes and the emergence of the modern Egyptian state under Muhammad Ali / Lisa Polland -- Modernity, national identity, and consumerism : visions of the Egyptian home, 1805-1922 / Mona Russell -- Late Ottoman photography : family, home, and new identities / Nancy Micklewright -- Domesticity and domestic consumption as social responsibility in la-'Isha, an Israeli women's weekly, 1947-1959 / Sonja Laden -- Consumption and the place of the economy in society : reciprocity and redistribution in markets for houses and household durables in Republican Turkey / Ayşe Buğra -- Home in the 1990s Galilee : an ethnographic approach to the study of power relations / Tania Forte -- Consumption based inequality : household expenditures and possession of goods in Israel, 1986-1998 / Tally Katz-Gerro.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This investigation into the consumption of homes and domesticity in the Middle East during the period between the mid-nineteenth and the early twenty-first centuries provides subtle accounts of how people in the region restructured their most immediate and intimate surroundings. Avoiding the notion of linearity and "progress" in the transition to modern lifestyles, this volume focuses on the market where producers and consumers meet, the state and the national movements with their respective ideologies and practices, and the role of advertisers: but also the agency of individual and group choice. In addition, it discusses, in different ways, the close interrelations between the representation of home and domestic life, for example in journals, books, and photography, and the political economy of house consumption.
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The contributors foreground the impact of economic, political, and socio-cultural transformations on the private life of individuals and the processes of restructuring self-identity and lifestyles via acts of consumption."--BOOK JACKET.