Everardo Rocha

Advertising and Consumption

Anthropological Studies in Brazil

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues for the study of consumption and its relationship with media images, particularly advertising, from a cultural perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9781032010212
• ISBN-10: 1032010215
• Artikelnr.: 67822606

Autorenporträt

Everardo Rocha is a Full Professor in the Graduate Program in Communication of the Department of Social Communication at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil. He received his PhD in Social Anthropology from the National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). His research has the support of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and the Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for the Support of Research in the State of Rio de Janeiro (Faperj). Everardo Rocha is author of numerous books, edited volumes, and articles on the anthropology of consumption, advertising, and Brazilian culture.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Guilt and pleasure: challenges and possibilities for understanding
consumer culture; Part I - Perspectives on consumption through fieldwork
experiences; 2 Totemism in the market: Lévi-Strauss as an inspiration for
consumption research; 3 A tribe of white collars: bricoleurs in the
business of advertising; 4 Against capital: the resistance to economic
thought among the Terena of central Brazil; Part II - Perspectives on
consumption through media images; 5 The woman in pieces: advertising and
the construction of feminine identity; 6 Classified beauty: goods and
bodies in women's magazines (with Marina Frid); 7 A star player in the
world of goods: marketing and the first Brazilian soccer celebrity (with
William Corbo)