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Culture and consumption : new approaches to the symbolic character of consumer goods and activities
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Culture and consumption : new approaches to the symbolic character of consumer goods and activities

Author: Grant David McCracken
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1988.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Grant David McCracken
ISBN: 0253315263 9780253315267
OCLC Number: 16405913
Description: xv, 174 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: The making of modern consumption -- "Ever dearer in our thoughts" : Patina and the representation of status before and after the eighteenth century -- Lois Roget : curatorial consumer in a modern world -- Clothing as language : an object lesson in the study of the expressive properties of material culture -- Meaning manufacture and movement in the world of goods -- Consumer goods, gender construction, and a rehabilitated trickle-down theory -- The evocative power of things : consumer goods and the preservation of hopes and ideals -- Diderot unities and the Diderot effect : neglected cultural aspects of consumption -- Consumption, change, and continuity.
Responsibility: Grant McCracken.

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