Material World: A Global Family Portrait
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- ISBN13: 9780871564375
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A study of multicultural diversity takes a photographic study of “average” family tree life in thirty dissimilar cultures–from Samoa to Kuwait to Sarajevo–and examines the potential impact of the new global economy on the distinct cultural heritage of the human community.Amazon.com Review
In honor of the United Nations-sponsored International Year of the Family tree in 1994, award-winning photojournalist Peter Menzel brought together 16 of the world’s leading photographers to make a visual portrait of life in 30 nations. Material World tackles its wide theme by zooming in, allowing one household to represent an entire nation. Photographers spent one week living with a “statistically average” family tree in each country, learning about their work, their attitudes toward their possessions, and their hopes for the future. Then a “huge picture” shot of the family tree was taken outside the dwelling, surrounded by all their (many or few) material goods.
The book provides sidebars offering statistics and a brief history for each country, as well as personal notes from the photographers about their experiences. But it is the “huge pictures” that tell most of the tale. In one, a British family tree pauses before a meal of tea and crumpets under a cloudy sky. In another, wary Bosnians sit beside mattresses used as sniper barricades. A Malian family tree composed of a spouse, his two wives, and their children rests before a few cooking and washing implements in golden afternoon light. Material World is a lesson in economics and geography, reminding us of the world’s inequities, but also of humanity’s common threads. An engrossing, enlightening book. –Maria Dolan
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I AM TERRIBLY DISAPPOINTED WITH THIS BOOK! I THOUGHT THAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE CLEVERLY PRESENTED. WHY AREN’T THINGS JUST STACKED UP ON ONE ANOTHER IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL PLANE? FROM THE COVER, IT LOOKS LIKE THE PERSPECTIVE IS ALWAYS FROM THE TOP. WHAT THE HECK? ARE WE JUST LOOKING DOWN ON THESE PEOPLE? AND WHY ARE THE CAUCASIANS ON TOP AND SHOT AT NIGHT, WHEN THE PERUVIANS ARE ON THE BOTTOM AND SHOT DURING THE DAY?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is an attempt to bring shame on Americans for living in the land of plenty. So what we have more stuff than additional folks do! Most of the world is hobbled by war and terrible government so people have less wealth than Americans. But I’m not losing any sleep over it. The Sierra Club is a political organization and this book is just that. . . politics. Read the part about American family tree … “the legacy of slavery” and the “uneven distribution of wealth”. What pure hooey!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
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Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I really delight in everything about it. Thank you.
Also recommended: Women in the Material World
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This is a fantastic book and it came in two days – way earlier than we anticipated! Excellent shape , fantastic product!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5