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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.
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About the Author:
Grant McCracken has been the director of the Institute of Contemporary Culture and a senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School and is now a visiting scholar at McGill University.
Review:
Freakonomics, meet brandthropology. In this concise volume (a companion to his watershed 1998 effort) of articulate introspection and insightful ethnographic essays, the author exhorts anthropologists to take back their culture. . . . Culture and Consumption II is well suited for adoption as a supplementary text at any level in courses dealing with material culture or museology. (Museum Anthropology Review)
This highly readable volume pairs informal essays with scholarly articles, all providing rich anthropological perspectives on the material elements of everyday life and how people build their identities, experiences, and relationships through them. . . . this collection of insights and arguments will serve general audiences, marketers, and students looking for fruitful ways of assessing consumer culture. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; students, lower-division undergraduate and up; and professionals.February 2006 (Choice)
. . . [McCracken's] freshness is as inspired and uplifting as it is novel. Culture and Consumption II is a wonderful read. (Journal of Advertising Research)
This highly readable volume pairs informal essays with scholarly articles, all providing rich anthropological perspectives on the material elements of everyday life and how people build their identities, experiences, and relationships through them. . . . this collection of insights and arguments will serve general audiences, marketers, and students looking for fruitful ways of assessing consumer culture. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; students, lower-division undergraduate and up; and professionals.February 2006 (Choice)
. . . [McCracken's] freshness is as inspired and uplifting as it is novel. Culture and Consumption II is a wonderful read. (Journal of Advertising Research)
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- PublisherIndiana University Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0253345669
- ISBN 13 9780253345660
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages226
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