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  • How Societies Become Consumer Cultures Through Housing

    How Societies Become Consumer Cultures Through Housing

    Alfred Marshall’s (Principles of Economics, 1891) view of housing still goes right to the heart of what makes housing and built environment an important anthropological topic. No artifact is so clearly multi-functional, simultaneously a utilitarian object of absolute necessity, and an item of symbolic material culture, a text of almost unending complexity. In every house…