Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Life in Brazil

From: Anthropological Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Maureen O'Dougherty. 2002 Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Animated by an explicit interest in shifting the conceptual terrain of middle-class study away from canonical, "First World" subjects, Maureen O'Dougherty's important work is framed by a set a questions intent on unsettling the material and symbolic dominance of the overdeveloped world, "whose hegemony," she maintains, "makes their middle classes the international standard" (O' Dougherty 4). As the author queries, "What happens with these theories [of middle-class life] when we study a location outside the First World or ...

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