Grant David McCracken

Culture and Consumption

New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities

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Produktbeschreibung

Takes a fresh view of the culture of consumption. This book examines the interplay of culture and consumer behavior from the anthropologist's point of view and provides new insights into the way we view ourselves and our society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 294g
• ISBN-13: 9780253206282
• ISBN-10: 0253206286
• Artikelnr.: 22462426

Autorenporträt

Grant McCracken is a member of The MIT Laboratory for Branding Cultures and a visiting scholar at McGill University and author of several books.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. History
One. The Making of Modern Consumption
Two. "Ever Dearer in Our Thoughts": Patina and the Representation of Status
before and after the Eighteenth Century
Three. Lois Roget: Curatorial Consumer in a Modern World
Part II. Theory
Four. Clothing as Language: An Object Lesson in the Study of the Expressive
Properties of Material Culture
Five. Meaning Manufacture and Movement in the World of Goods
Part III. Practice
Six. Consumer Goods, Gender Construction, and a Rehabilitated Trickle-down
Theory
Seven. The Evocative Power of Things: Consumer Goods and the Preservation
of Hopes and Ideals
Eight. Diderot Unitites and the Diderot Effect: Neglected Cultural Aspects
of Consumption
Nine. Consumption, Change, and Continuity
Notes
References
Index