书目名称 | Material Culture and Consumer Society |
副标题 | Dependent Colonies i |
编辑 | Mark Staniforth |
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概述 | Discusses the beginnings of Australia and argues that material goods were a necessary adjunct to the establishment of the colony.Contends that the role of consumption and the part played by material g |
丛书名称 | The Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology |
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描述 | The establishment of a consumer society in Australia has not been a particularly well explored area of academic inquiry. My interests lie in the concepts and meanings that underlie the material world; ideas like, in the words of Madonna, "I am a material girl and I live in a material world" (terminology taken to be not gender specific), the classic graffiti paraphrasing of Descartes: I shop therefore I am or perhaps simply in the "world of goods" in the more academically respectable terms of Douglas and Isherwood (1979). This book arises out of my longstanding interest in the early colonial period in Australia. In part it represents an extension of the purely "historical" research conducted for my Master‘s thesis in the Department of History at the University of Sydney which explored aspects of the diet, health and lived experience of con victs and immigrants during their voyages to the Australian colonies within the timeframe 1837 to 1839 (Staniforth, 1993a). More importantly, it is the culmina tion of more than twenty-five years involvement in the excavation of shipwreck sites in Australia starting with James Matthews (1841) in 1974, through the test excavation of William Salth |
出版日期 | Book 2003 |
关键词 | Colonial Period; Colonialism; Colonization; capitalism; consumption; cultural heritage managers; dependent |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0211-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-4613-4967-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4615-0211-1Series ISSN 2730-7018 Series E-ISSN 2730-7026 |
issn_series | 2730-7018 |
copyright | Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York 2003 |