“I love giving presents”: the emotion of material culture

Louise Purbrick

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Abstract

This chapter examines Mass Observation writing about gift exchanges and reflects upon Theodore Adorno's 1951 essay that the practice of giving presents is being forgotten. It makes a case for attachment between people and things that remains throughout process of commodification of everyday life.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLove Objects: Emotion, Design and Material Culture
EditorsA. Moran, S. O’Brien
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherBloomsbury
Pages9-20
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9780857858467
Publication statusPublished - 28 Aug 2014

Publication series

NameHistory and Culture of Design

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