Suitably Modern : : Making Middle-Class Culture in a New Consumer Society /

Suitably Modern : : Making Middle-Class Culture in a New Consumer Society / / Mark Liechty.

Suitably Modern traces the growth of a new middle class in Kathmandu as urban Nepalis harness the modern cultural resources of mass media and consumer goods to build modern identities and pioneer a new sociocultural space in one of the world's "least developed countries." Since Nepal&...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Liechty, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2003
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 2 maps. 10 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART I: INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Middle-Class Construction
  • 2. Modern Nepali History and the Rise of the Middle Class
  • PART II: CLASS AND CONSUMERISM
  • 3. Middle-Class Consciousness: "Hanging between the High and the Low"
  • 4. Consumer Culture in Kathmandu: "Playing with Your Brain"
  • 5. "Doing Fashion" in Kathmandu: Class and the Consumer Public
  • PART III: MEDIA CONSUMPTION IN KATHMANDU
  • 6. The Social Practice of Cinema and Video Viewing in Kathmandu
  • 7. Media Cultures: The Global in the Local
  • PART IV: YOUTH AND THE EXPERIENCE OF MODERNITY
  • 8. Constructing the Modern Youth
  • 9. Modernity, Time, and Place: Youth Culture in Kathmandu
  • PART V: CONCLUSION
  • 10. The Space of Class: Toward an Anthropology of Middle-Class Cultural Practice
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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