This highly original anthropological study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other perspectives on the person.
 
Contributors draw on approaches from material culture to create fascinating portraits of individuals and offer analytical insights that convey ethnographic encounters with extraordinary people from the world over.
 
Exploring relationships to places and spaces such as social networking sites, to persons such as parents, to ethical concerns such as fairness and to ideas such as the ideology of struggle, "Anthropology and the Individual" shows how the study of the individual can provide insights into society without losing a sense of the particularity of the person.

About the Author(s)

Daniel Miller

Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at University College London.

Table of Contents

Chapter One:  D. Miller – Individuals and the Aesthetic of Order.

 

Chapter Two:  M. Crãciun- Trading in Fake Brands, self-creating as an individual.

 

Chapter Three: B. Olesen – “Making Things Come Out:”Design, Originality and the Individual in a Bogolan Artisan Community.

 

Chapter Four: D. Dalakoglou - Building and Ordering Transnationalism: The 'Greek House' in Albania as a Material Process

 

Chapter Five: D. Miller – The Christian and the Taxi-driver: poverty and aspiration in rural Jamaica

 

Chapter Six: M. Murray –How Madrid makes individuals.

 

Chapter Seven: H. Horst – Aesthetics of the Self: Digital Mediations

 

Chapter Eight: I. Bajiæ - Unmaking Family Relationships Belgrade Mothers and their migrant children

 

Chapter Nine:  J. Botticello - Fashioning individuality and social connectivity among Yoruba women in

 London

 

Chapter Ten:  A. Pertierra - Creating order through struggle  in revolutionary Cuba.

 

Chapter Eleven: G. Hosein - Food, Family, Art and God  Aesthetic authority in public life in Trinidad