Reflection as commodity: A short ethno(historio)graphy of Victorian mirrors
The task undertaken in this text is to show the way mirrors, as Victorian commodities, embodied the emerging nineteenth-century consumerist culture and changed the desiring subject’s self-perception. For the first time in the cultural history of the West, mirrors became cheap, spectaculariz...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade
2016-01-01
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Series: | Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU |
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Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2016/0350-08611601121T.pdf |