“…Some of the most influential contributions to the study of material things within sociocultural anthropology have been made by Daniel Miller (e.g., 1995, 2001 and other scholars working in a similar tradition, who have meticulously documented in a wide range of contexts how subjects are formed and reformed and how social relations are continuously patterned precisely through the mediated consumption of material objects. Working within and expanding on this framework, subsequent research has explored the relationships between various sociocultural domains and the specificities of material things, including, for example, staples like money (Lemon 1998;Maurer 2005), food (Allison 2000;Ries 2009), and clothing (Besnier 2004;Hansen 1994;Jones 2010). Consumption has also played a central role in the Swedish ethnological tradition (Löfgren 1997), particularly with regard to the historical construction of a national middle class (Frykman and Löfgren 1987;Löfgren 1987) and its ongoing transformation (Löfgren 2007).…”