The Wedding Present: Domestic Life Beyond Consumption

by Louise Purbrick (Author), Louise Purbrick (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $150.30

  In this fascinating work, Louise Purbrick offers an alternative analysis of contemporary domestic consumption. She investigates the ritualized presentation of objects upon marriage, and their subsequent cycles of exchange within the domestic sphere. Presenting new material on the enactment of exchange relationships within everyday domesticity.