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Culture and consumption : new approaches to the symbolic character of consumer goods and activities / Grant McCracken.

By: McCracken, Grant David, 1951-.
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1988Description: xv, 174 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0253315263 (pbk.); 0253206286 (pbk.).Subject(s): Consumption (Economics) -- History | Culture -- History | Social values -- HistoryDDC classification: 339.47
Contents:
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.
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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.