Review of Péter Berta, Materializing Difference, Consumer Culture, Politics and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma, University of Toronto Press, 2019

Abstract

P eter Berta’s Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma makes an important contribution to the understanding of social life of things and its connection to politics, ethnicity, and social distinction among Romanian (Transylvanian) Roma. The story centers around silver beakers and roofed tankards, prestige objects around which Gabor and C arhar Roma, two This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercialNoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/ 4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.