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Beschreibung
Like McCracken's previous volume, this new book is an engaging, informative, and eye-opening foray into modern consumer culture.
Like McCracken's previous volume, this new book is an engaging, informative, and eye-opening foray into modern consumer culture.
Über den Autor

Grant McCracken is a member of The MIT Laboratory for Branding Cultures and a visiting scholar at McGill University and author of several books, including Culture and Consumption (IUP, 1988), Big Hair, and Transformation.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Acknowledgments
I. Introduction
1. Living in the Material World
2. On Oprah
II. Homes
3. The Drew Bledsoe Paradox: The Mysterious Home Economics of Homo economicus
4. Homeyness: A Cultural Account of One Constellation of Consumer Goods and Meanings
III. Automobiles
5. Calling Grease
6. When Cars Could Fly: Raymond Loewy, John Kenneth Galbraith, and the 1954 Buick
IV. Celebrities
7. Marilyn Monroe, Inventor of Blondness
8. Who Is the Celebrity Endorser? Cultural Foundations of the Endorsement Process
V. Museums
9. The Strange Power of Uncle Meyer's Wallet
10. Culture and Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum: An Anthropological Approach to a Marketing Problem
VI. Advertising
11. Taking Madison Avenue by Storm
12. Advertising: Meaning versus Information
VII. Marketing
13. Sarah Zupko, Meet Mrs. Woolworth
14. Meaning-Management: An Anthropological Approach to the Creation of Value
Bibliography
Index

Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Fachbereich: Völkerkunde
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Völkerkunde
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Indiana University Press (IPS)
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780253217615
ISBN-10: 025321761X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McCracken, Grant David
Hersteller: Indiana University Press
Indiana University Press (IPS)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 231 x 160 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Grant David McCracken
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2005
Gewicht: 0,395 kg
Artikel-ID: 133172679