@inbook{0ecd1547a4964215b902657708d38825,
title = "“I love giving presents”: the emotion of material culture",
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.",
author = "Louise Purbrick",
year = "2014",
month = aug,
day = "28",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780857858467",
series = "History and Culture of Design",
publisher = "Bloomsbury",
pages = "9--20",
editor = "A. Moran and S. O{\textquoteright}Brien",
booktitle = "Love Objects: Emotion, Design and Material Culture",
}