TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCracken,Grant David
TI  - Culture and consumption: new approaches to the symbolic character of consumer goods and activities 
SN  - 0253315263 (pbk.)
U1  - 339.47 
PY  - 1988///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - History
KW  - Culture
KW  - Social values
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -