Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma by Péter Berta

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Fotta, Martin
Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma by Péter Berta.
[BERTA, P.: Materializing difference: consumer culture, politics, and ethnicity among Romanian Roma. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. xviii, 372 stran, 24 nečíslovaných stran obrazové přílohy.]. EuropeNow. (2020)
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378076
Klíčová slova: Romanies (Gypsies) * material studies * Romania * value * object biography
Obor OECD: Antropology, ethnology
Způsob publikování: Open access
https://www.europenowjournal.org/2020/04/27/materializing-difference-consumer-culture-politics-and-ethnicity-among-romanian-roma-by-peter-berta/

More than a decade ago, Péter Berta introduced consumption and material culture studies to Romani studies (Berta 2007). In a series of articles since, he proved that analyzing Roma interactions with material objects can reveal much about contemporary Roma communities and individual lives. He has asked scholars to move beyond an exoticizing and marginalizing focus on folklore, traditional crafts, and art to questions of consumption and object circulation. Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics and Ethnicity is the first ethnographic, book-length effort to systematically explore Romani prestige economies and their related symbolic repertoires with the aim of furthering the understanding of how intra-group hierarchization relates to consumption practices within Romani communities.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0314501