Anthropology and the Individual (A Material Culture Perspective)

In announcing this newly published volume, Anthropology and the Individual, edited by one of the prolific anthropologists, Daniel Miller, I would like to congratulate a friend of mine, Magda Craciun who has just received her PhD degree! Dr. Craciun conducted her fieldwork in Istanbul among fake brand clothing producers and she contributed a chapter based on her fieldwork to this volume. Here is the 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