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Author Purbrick, Louise.

Title The wedding present : domestic life beyond consumption / Louise Purbrick
Published London : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 197 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction : making homes and worlds : marriage and consumption from 1945 to today -- 1. Objects of approval -- 2. China and pyrex : the practices of preservation -- 3. Accounting for change : forgotten, neglected, and altered objects -- 4. The list : domesticity, conformity, and class -- 5. Methods : mass-observation -- 6. Afterword : unmarried households
Notes Originally published 2007 by Ashgate Publishing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-188) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed on February 25, 2019)
Subject Marriage customs and rites -- Great Britain
Gifts -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain
Economic anthropology -- Great Britain
Households -- Great Britain
Consumption (Economics) -- Great Britain
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Economic anthropology
Consumption (Economics)
Economic history
Gifts -- Economic aspects
Households
Manners and customs
Marriage customs and rites
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056671
Great Britain -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056946
Subject Great Britain
Form Electronic book
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