Culture and Consumption II
Culture and Consumption II A follow-up to Grant McCracken's groundbreaking "Culture and Consumption", this new book trades the usual platitudes about the consumer society for a more detailed,…
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Culture and Consumption II
A follow-up to Grant McCracken's groundbreaking "Culture and Consumption", this new book trades the usual platitudes about the consumer society for a more detailed, exacting anthropological treatment. The essay is designed for a quick, provocative glimpse of the topic; the article provides a deeper anthropological treatment. Each section of the book pairs a brief essay with an academic article.
Essays follow on homes, cars, people, and social mobility; celebrities, consumerism, and self-invention; museums and the power of objects; the anthropology of advertising; and marketing, meaning management, and value. The book opens with a broadside against the now thoroughly conventionalized attack on the consumer culture. Like McCracken's previous volume, this new book is an engaging, informative, and eye-opening foray into modern consumer culture.
Grant McCracken is a visiting scholar at McGill University and author of several books, including "Culture and Consumption" (IUP, 1988), "Big Hair", and "Transformation".
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