Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Foreword xiii
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction Translocal Communities of Practice and Multi-Sited Ethnographies 3
7. PART ONE Negotiating and Materializing Difference and Belonging
8. 1 Symbolic Arenas and Trophies of the Politics of Difference 23
9. 2 The Gabors’ Prestige Economy: A Translocal, Ethnicized, Informal, and Gendered Consumer Subculture 53
10. 3 From Antiques to Prestige Objects: De- and Recontextualizing Commodities from the European Antiques Market 82
11. 4 Creating Symbolic and Material Patina 95
12. 5 The Politics of Brokerage: Bazaar-Style Trade and Risk Management 118
13. 6 Political Face-Work and Transcultural Bricolage/Hybridity: Prestige Objects in Political Discourse 150
14. PART TWO Contesting Consumer Subcultures: Interethnic Trade, Fake Authenticity, and Classification Struggles
15. 7 Gabor Roma, Ca˘rhar Roma, and the European Antiques Market: Contesting Consumer Subcultures 177
16. 8 Interethnic Trade of Prestige Objects 208
17. 9 Constructing, Commodifying, and Consuming Fake Authenticity 219
18. 10 The Politics of Consumption: Classification Struggles, Moral Criticism, and Stereotyping 236
19. PART THREE Multi-Sited Commodity Ethnographies
20. 11 Things-in-Motion: Methodological Fetishism, Multi-Sitedness, and the Biographical Method 261
21. 12 Prestige Objects, Marriage Politics, and the Manipulation of Nominal Authenticity: The Biography of a Beaker, 2000–2007 266
22. 13 Proprietary Contest, Business Ethics, and Conflict Management: The Biography of a Roofed Tankard, 1992–2012 281
23. Conclusion The Post-Socialist Consumer Revolution and the Shifting Meanings of Prestige Goods 297
24. Notes 313
25. References 337
26. Index 359
27. Anthropological Horizons 373