Advertising and Anthropology: Ethnographic Practice and Cultural Perspectives - Hardcover

De Waal Malefyt, Timothy; Morais, Robert J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857852019 ISBN 13: 9780857852014

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

Examining theory and practice, Advertising and Anthropology is a lively and important contribution to the study of organizational culture, consumption practices, marketing to consumers and the production of creativity in corporate settings. The chapters reflect the authors' extensive lived experienced as professionals in the advertising business and marketing research industry. Essays analyze internal agency and client meetings, competitive pressures and professional relationships and include multiple case studies. The authors describe the structure, function and process of advertising agency work, the mediation and formation of creativity, the centrality of human interactions in agency work, the production of consumer insights and industry ethics. Throughout the book, the authors offer concrete advice for practitioners.

Advertising and Anthropology is written by anthropologists for anthropologists as well as students and scholars interested in advertising and related industries such as marketing, marketing research and design.

About this title

Book Description:

Advertising and Anthropology explains how advertising agencies function from the inside and how anthropologists can apply their expertise in business.

About the Author:

Timothy de Waal Malefyt is Visiting Associate Professor at the Center for Positive Marketing, School of Business, Fordham University, New York.

Robert J. Morais is a Principal of Weinman Schnee Morais Inc., a marketing research firm in New York, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0857852019
• ISBN 13: 9780857852014
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200