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Lotto, long-drops & lolly scrambles : the extra-ordinary anthropology of middle New Zealand / Peter Howland ; photographs by Lucinda Birch.

Title
Lotto, long-drops & lolly scrambles : the extra-ordinary anthropology of middle New Zealand / Peter Howland ; photographs by Lucinda Birch.
Author
Howland, Peter, 1961-
Publication
Wellington : Steele Roberts, 2004.

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Additional Authors
Birch, Lucinda.
Description
136 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 17 x 24 cm.
Alternative Title
Lotto, long-drops and lolly scrambles
Subject
  • Middle class > New Zealand
  • National characteristics, New Zealand
  • Ethnology > New Zealand
  • New Zealand > Social conditions
  • New Zealand > Social life and customs
Note
  • The illustrations are mounted photographs.
  • Collected essays.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Intro: The coming of anthriopology in middle New Zealand ... hold on to your mobiles! -- 1. Life's a dunny... anthroplogically speaking: anthropologists, cultural difference & toilets -- 2. The rituals of life: out of the shower and into the lolly scramble: ideals, dinner parties, rituals & social change -- 3. Hair combs, pavolva and silver ferns: signposts of Kiwi culture: symbols, Kiwiana, globalisation & romance -- 4. The name of the game is Lotto: gambling, transnationalism, luck & ideal Kiwis -- 5. Kiwi sex: dithering between lust and constraint: sex -- 6. You say ethnicity, I say culture -- let's call the whole thing ...?: identity, cultural difference & socks.
  • 7. White crosses on the roadside: non-places and non-people: place, personhood economics and mobility -- 8. The supermarket, the net, and the starlings: place, space, symbols & action -- 9. Martinborough's pinot pilgrims: rural escapism and monsteries of consumption: wine, tourism & the ideal self -- 10. "The middle clases are revolting ... serve pinot at my funeral": class, power, rebellion, witchcraft and death -- 11. Fitzgerald's penis in a fickle world: value, quantification, norms & bodyweight.
ISBN
1877228745
OCLC
65204872
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library