Review:
"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 Turns Forty
"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, Changing Agendas
"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
Synopsis:
Exploring the nexus of emotions, consumption and commodification they represent, A.F. Robertson tracks the rise of the porcelain collectible market; interviews the women collectors themselves; and visits their clubs, fairs and homes to understand what makes the dolls so irresistible.
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