Clarity, Cut, and Culture : The Many Meanings of Diamonds

• Tác giả: Susan Falls
• ISBN-13: 978-1479877430
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : NYU Press, 2014.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (224 pages).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 462140
• Chủ đề: 1. Diamonds--Social aspects; 2. Identity (Psychology); 3. Symbolism; 4. Diamants--Aspect social; 5. Identite (Psychologie); 6. FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS--Life Stages; 8. PSYCHOLOGY--Developmental; 10. PSYCHOLOGY--General; 11. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology

Tóm tắt

Images of diamonds appear everywhere in American culture. And everyone who has a diamond has a story to tell about it. Our stories about diamonds not only reveal what we do with these tiny stones, but also suggest how we create value, meaning, and identity through our interactions with material culture in general. Things become meaningful through our interactions with them, but how do people go about making meaning? What can we learn from an ethnography about the production of identity, creation of kinship, and use of diamonds in understanding selves and social relationships? By what means do.