Description: Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1: Why some things matter Daniel Miller 2: Radio texture: between self and others Jo Tacchi 3: From woollen carpet to grass carpet: bridging house and garden in an English suburb Sophie Chevalier 4: Window shopping at home: classifieds, catalogues and new consumer skills Alison J. Clarke 5: The message in paper Andrea Pellegram 6: Material of culture, fabric of identity Neil Jarman 7: Calypso's consequences Justin Finden-Crofts 8: Coca-Cola: a black sweet drink from Trinidad Daniel Miller 9: Signs of the new nation: gift exchange, consumption and aid on a former collective farm in north-west Estonia Sigrid Rausing 10: At home and abroad: inalienable wealth, personal consumption and the formulations of femininity in the southern Philippines Mark Johnson Index

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