Commodities and Consumption
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23454243 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Penny Crook (0000-0001-8509-7865, Macquarie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 489-506 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.42 |
| OpenAlex | W4224324008 |
| ISBN | 9780199693962 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
This chapter reviews the importance of commodities and consumption to archaeologies of the modern industrialized world. After centuries of New World exploration saw exotic luxuries transformed into everyday commodities, the Industrial Revolution delivered a new array of domestic goods to the emerging middle classes in the Old World. The practice of household provisioning changed for good as humble town markets were dwarfed by palaces of consumption. Scholars from many fields have analyzed consumer behaviour to explore individual desire and social order, debating the significance of social, cultural, economic, and material change, past and present. Consequently, consumer theory remains diverse and ‘complex’. Archaeology offers a unique perspective and recent research in transnational archaeologies have revealed local and market-specific consumption patterns against a backdrop of global trade. Current trends suggest that future archaeologies of consumption will enable a greater pursuit of both the production and consumption of commodities.
Advertising · Business · Conspicuous consumption · Consumer Culture · Consumption (sociology) · Economics · Economy · Emerging markets · Luxury goods · Order (exchange) · Production (economics) · Provisioning · Social science · Sociology · Engineering · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Marketing
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Material Culture in Seventeenth-Century ‘Britain’
The Industrious Revolution
The cultural biography of things
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
The Aesthetics of Social Aspiration
Introduction
Consumer Choices in White Ceramics
Historical Archaeology
Cultural Identity and the Consumption of Industry
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The Importance of British Material Culture to Historical Archaeologies of the Nineteenth Century
Empire of things
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The mystical character of commodities
Historical Archaeology
British Ceramics on the Northern European Periphery
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Approaching the archaeology of value
A Venezuelan household clearance assemblage of 19th-century British ceramics in international perspective
A late 18th-century inn clearance assemblage from Uxbridge, Middlesex
Life in a “Cathedral of Consumption’
The Complexities of Consumption
Classification and economic scaling of 19th century ceramics
Race and the genteel consumer
Cotton
Distinction. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
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Dolly's Creek
The Archaeology of Consumption
| Highly cited | No |
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