Culture and Consumption II: Markets, Meaning, and Brand Management

by McCracken, Grant David
ISBN: 9780253217615
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Overview

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. Each section of the book pairs a brief essay with an academic article. The essay is designed for a quick, provocative glimpse of the topic; the article provides a deeper anthropological treatment. The book opens with a broadside against the now thoroughly conventionalized attack on the consumer culture. 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. Like McCracken's previous volume, this new book is an engaging, informative, and eye-opening foray into modern consumer culture.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: McCracken, Grant David
  • ISBN: 9780253217615
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.10 x 0.74
  • Number Of Pages: 240
  • Publication Year: 2005