Mark Staniforth

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Material Culture and Consumer Society: Dependent Colonies in Colonial Australia (2003)Hardcover - 2003, 31 January 2003

Material Culture and Consumer Society: Dependent Colonies in Colonial Australia (2003)
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Part of Series
The Springer Underwater Archaeology
Part of Series
Plenum Series in Underwater Archaeology
Part of Series
Plenum Series in Underwater Archaeology
Part of Series
Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology
Part of Series
Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology the Springer Serie
Print Length
185 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
31 Jan 2003
ISBN-10
0306473860
ISBN-13
9780306473869

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The establishment of a consumer society in Australia has not been a particularly well explored area of academic inquiry. My interests lie in the concepts and meanings that underlie the material world; ideas like, in the words of Madonna, "I am a material girl and I live in a material world" (terminology taken to be not gender specific), the classic graffiti paraphrasing of Descartes: I shop therefore I am or perhaps simply in the "world of goods" in the more academically respectable terms of Douglas and Isherwood (1979). This book arises out of my longstanding interest in the early colonial period in Australia. In part it represents an extension of the purely "historical" research conducted for my Master's thesis in the Department of History at the University of Sydney which explored aspects of the diet, health and lived experience of con- victs and immigrants during their voyages to the Australian colonies within the timeframe 1837 to 1839 (Staniforth, 1993a). More importantly, it is the culmina- tion of more than twenty-five years involvement in the excavation of shipwreck sites in Australia starting with James Matthews (1841) in 1974, through the test excavation of William Salthouse in 1982, continuing with my involvement between 1985 and 1994 in the excavation of Sydney Cove (1797) and most recently with shore-based whaling stations and whaling shipwreck sites. In this respect, this book may be seen as an example of what Ian Hodder (1986, p.

Product Details

Author:
Mark Staniforth
Book Edition:
2003
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
31 January 2003
Dimensions:
23.98 x 15.49 x 1.88 cm
ISBN-10:
0306473860
ISBN-13:
9780306473869
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
185
Publisher:
Weight:
512.56 gm

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