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Fake (Object Lessons)

Kati Stevens · 2018

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The electric candle and faux fur, coffee substitutes and meat analogues, Obama impersonators, prosthetics. Imitation this, false that. Humans have been replacing and improving upon the real thing for millennia - from wooden toes found on Egyptian mummies to the Luxor pyramid in Las Vegas. So why do people have such disdain for so-called "fakes"? Kati Stevens's *Fake* discusses the strange history of imitations, as well as our ever-changing psychological and socioeconomic relationships with them. After all, fakes aren't going anywhere; they seem to be going everywhere.

Book details

Year
2018
Language
English
Series
Object Lessons
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Editions
1
Pages
160
ISBN
9781501338137

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