Review: The Comfort of Things
User Review - Nicole - GoodreadsThis has an interesting premise and I enjoyed it quite a lot at the start, but I thought it dragged on for too long. He'd made his point about the importance of objects to people's lives halfway through, and the analysis of additional people didn't seem to add much. Read full review
Review: The Comfort of Things
User Review - GoodreadsAnother master writer of portraits/case studies
Review: The Comfort of Things
User Review - Lucy - GoodreadsA collection of anthropological accounts of residents of 1 London street and their connection to things. 'Things' are not limited to items or belongings but also memories, relationships and places. A ... Read full review
Review: The Comfort of Things
User Review - Robert Landwirth - Goodreads2 Anthropologists visit the habitants of a street in London. They ask the people about their relation to the most important things they own. The book contains 30 portaits (15 in the german version ... Read full review
Review: The Comfort of Things
User Review - Claudia - GoodreadsThe most absorbing and sensitively written sociology/anthropology book I've ever read. Miller explores human attachments to objects in a series of thirty vignettes of people living on one London ... Read full review
Review: The Comfort of Things
User Review - SonicRim - GoodreadsA look into the lives of 30 housholds on a London street. Covers the semiotics of material culture. Revealing "the forms by which ordinary people make sense of their lives, and the ways in which objects become our companions in the daily struggle to make life meaningful." Read full review
Review: The Comfort of Things
User Review - Ellen Evers - GoodreadsTries to be scientific on one hand and entertaining at the other, fails at both. Read full review
Review: The Comfort of Things
User Review - Jenne - GoodreadsHmm, this wasn't quite what I expected, I guess. I think I thought it would be more obviously anthropological, with more distance between the writer and subjects...but still I enjoyed it for what it ... Read full review
Review: The Comfort of Things
User Review - Goodreadsp.145 In a previous publication -- 'How Infants Grow Mothers in North London' -- I wrote about the way academics have focused on how the infant develops a gradual sense of itself as an independent ...
Review: The Comfort of Things
User Review - Anthrodiva Stommen - GoodreadsOne of the few ethnographies I wish I had written - and the only one to ever make me cry. Read full review
