Extensive, economical and elegant : the habitus of gentility in early nineteenth century Sydney
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01/10/2004
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Resumo |
This paper challenges the modern expectation that mahogany furniture and silver cutlery were self-evident indicators of gentry status in colonial Sydney through close analysis of a bundle of middle class household inventories of the 1840s. They are considered as evidence of habitus--the structuring interaction of mentality with the material world--in order to demonstrate the active principle of consumption in the claim or assertion of bourgeois standing, which was particularly lively in the colony. A range of competences can he seen in the practice of gentility, which suggests that the possession of rosewood rather than mahogany, or imitation silver rather than sterling, was a variation shaped not merely by wealth but by cultural capital. This exposes strands of contingency, competition and compromise in middle class expression.<br /> |
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eng |
Publicador |
University of Melbourne |
Relação |
http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30016773/young-extensiveeconomical-2004.pdf http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=14935922&site=ehost-live |
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2004, University of Melbourne |
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Journal Article |