Materializing Difference : Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma.

Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Translocal Communities of Practice and Multi-Sited Ethnographies -- Part One: Negotiating and Materializing Difference and Belonging -- 1 Symbolic Arenas and Trophies of the Politics of Difference -- 2 The Gabors' Prestige Economy: A Translocal, Ethnicized, Informal, and Gendered Consumer Subculture -- 3 From Antiques to Prestige Objects: De- and Recontextualizing Commodities from the European Antiques Market -- 4 Creating Symbolic and Material Patina -- 5 The Politics of Brokerage: Bazaar-Style Trade and Risk Management -- 6 Political Face-Work and Transcultural Bricolage/Hybridity: Prestige Objects in Political Discourse -- Part Two: Contesting Consumer Subcultures: Interethnic Trade, Fake Authenticity, and Classification Struggles -- 7 Gabor Roma, Cărhar Roma, and the European Antiques Market: Contesting Consumer Subcultures -- 8 Interethnic Trade of Prestige Objects -- 9 Constructing, Commodifying, and Consuming Fake Authenticity -- 10 The Politics of Consumption: Classification Struggles, Moral Criticism, and Stereotyping -- Part Three: Multi-Sited Commodity Ethnographies -- 11 Things-in-Motion: Methodological Fetishism, Multi-Sitedness, and the Biographical Method -- 12 Prestige Objects, Marriage Politics, and the Manipulation of Nominal Authenticity: The Biography of a Beaker, 2000-2007 -- 13 Proprietary Contest, Business Ethics, and Conflict Management: The Biography of a Roofed Tankard, 1992-2012 -- Conclusion: The Post-Socialist Consumer Revolution and the Shifting Meanings of Prestige Goods -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Colour plates.

Materializing Differencereveals the inner dynamics of the complex relations and interactions between objects and subjects and investigates how these relations and interactions contribute to the construction, materialization, and reformulation of social, economic, and political identities, boundaries, and differences.

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