Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. The Commodity 3. The Collection just Grows and Grows 4. The Doll that Needs You 5. Dollification 6. More than Real 7. Forever Young 8. Innocence and Fear Appendices Bibliography
A. F. Robertson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of seven books including Greed and Beyond theFamily.
"By turns insightful, probing, provocative, and thoughtful, Life
Like Dolls explores the richly metaphoric meaning of dolls and the
inner lives of the people who collect them." -- Yona Zeldis
McDonough, editor of The Barbie Chronicles: A Living Doll
TurnsForty
"Doll-collecting, and the industry that supports it, moves from
appearing to be a literal curiosity to the source of convincing
insights about family, gender, and aging in contemporary
life...[A]n account that is compelling, deep, and goes to the heart
of general questions about humankind that anthropology has
distinctively raised." -- George E. Marcus, editor of Critical
Anthropology Now:Unexpected Contexts, Shifting Constituencies,
ChangingAgendas
"Robertson shows how the doll serves to encapsulate everything from
guilty pleasure and longing to big business and consumer
commodification. A work of originality and verve." -- Harvey
Molotch, author of Where Stuff Comes From
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