4. Consumer Culture in Kathmandu: "Playing with Your Brain"

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. PART I: INTRODUCTION
7. 1. Middle-Class Construction 3
8. 2. Modern Nepali History and the Rise of the Middle Class 39
9. PART II: CLASS AND CONSUMERISM
10. 3. Middle-Class Consciousness: "Hanging between the High and the Low" 61
11. 4. Consumer Culture in Kathmandu: "Playing with Your Brain" 87
12. 5. "Doing Fashion" in Kathmandu: Class and the Consumer Public 117
13. PART III: MEDIA CONSUMPTION IN KATHMANDU
14. 6. The Social Practice of Cinema and Video Viewing in Kathmandu 151
15. 7. Media Cultures: The Global in the Local 183
16. PART IV: YOUTH AND THE EXPERIENCE OF MODERNITY
17. 8. Constructing the Modern Youth 209
18. 9. Modernity, Time, and Place: Youth Culture in Kathmandu 232
19. PART V: CONCLUSION
20. 10. The Space of Class: Toward an Anthropology of Middle-Class Cultural Practice 249
21. Bibliography 267
22. Index 291