McCracken, Grant David,  1951- <br/><br/>
Culture and consumption :  new approaches to the symbolic character of consumer goods and activities / 
Grant McCracken. 
 - Bloomington :  Indiana University Press,  c1988. 
 - xv, 174 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Part I History: 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 -- Part II Theory: 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 -- Part III Practice: 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0253315263 (pbk.) 0253206286 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Consumption (Economics)--History.<br/>Culture--History.<br/>Social values--History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>339.47  / MAC