Very Interesting Book

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Material World: A Global Family Portrait

This book takes families from around the world and has them put all their possessions outside their home and a picture is taken of the family. The comparison of families around the world is very interesting.

October 1, 2007 by Uncategorized 4

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  1. Bibliofuture says:
    October 1, 2007 at 6:56 am

    Paperback version at Amazon
    The paperback version at Amazon can be found here.

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  2. GAC says:
    October 1, 2007 at 7:17 pm

    Similar
    I saw this once before but the families put everything on top of the square footage a shipping container has.

    Then the photographer burned all of it and captured the family’s reactions.

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  3. Anonymous Patron says:
    October 2, 2007 at 5:02 pm

    Heavy handed, but fascinating.
    The anti-western (especially American) bias is palpable – they chose rich Texan evangelicals to compare with nobly poor South Asian buddhists, of course! The peek into the material culture of so many different peoples is nevertheless fascinating. I was surprised to see that television (with mostly Western programming) has become absolutely ubiquitous in the very poorest countries.

    And, the Kuwaitis are actually the richest, it seems….

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  4. Bibliofuture says:
    October 2, 2007 at 6:59 pm

    Re:Heavy handed, but fascinating.
    They did not choose rich Texans. All the families shown are the “average” for their country. The family shown meets the average income. It just looks rich to us because librarians earn less than most people so average looks very good.

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