Books by Daniel Miller

Provides an examination of Internet culture and consumption. This book offers an account of being online, of the social, political and cultural contexts, which account for the Internet experience. It demonstrates the potential for a comprehensive approach to media, and offers an account of the integration between on-line and off-line worlds.

Exploring modernity from an ethnographic perspective, the book focuses on Trinidad - a society which has suffered social rupture through slavery and indentured labour. It discusses mass consumption, and the use of goods and imported images to express and develop contradictions of modernity.

Challenges many of our assumptions about the direction of contemporary capitalism and offers perspectives that will inform the development of a political economy. In this book the importance of factors such as profitability and globalization is highlighted, and an analysis of the contradictions and ironies of the world of commodities emerges.

How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the results of the research and explores the impact of social media on politics and gender, education and commerce. What is the result of the increased emphasis on visual communication? Are we becoming more individual or more social? Why is public social media so conservative? Why does equality online fail to shift inequality offline? How did memes become the moral police of the internet?Supported by an introduction to the project's academic framework and theoretical terms that help to account for the findings, the book argues that the only way to appreciate and understand something as intimate and ubiquitous as social media is to be immersed in the lives of the people who post. Only then can we discover how people all around the world have already transformed social media in such unexpected ways and assess the consequences.

This book starts from the premise that methodology - the procedures for obtaining an 'objective' knowledge of the past - has always dominated archaeology to the detriment of broader social theory. It argues that social theory is archaeological theory, and that past failure to recognise this has resulted in disembodied archaeological theory and weak disciplinary practice.

The aim of Artefacts as Categories is to ask what we can learn about a society from the variability of the objects it produces. His invigorating study cogently questions many assumptions in material culture studies and offers a whole range of fresh explanations.

A collection of essays which present a balanced survey between theoretical discussions on the one hand and case-study research on the other. This volume is an ethnographic study of material cultures.