 A prolific author, Miller criticises the concept of materialism which presumes human relationships to things are at the expense of human relationship to other persons.He argues that most people are either enabled to form close relationships to both persons and objects or have difficulties with both.With Miller's students he has applied these ideas to many genres of material culture such as clothing, homes, media and the car, through research based on the methods of traditional anthropological ethnography in regions including the Caribbean, India and London.