Culture and consumption : new approaches to the symbolic character of consumer goods and activities / Grant McCracken.
By: McCracken, Grant David
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I History
- 1 The Making of Modern Consumption
- 2 "Ever Dearer in Our Thoughts": Patina and the Representation of Status before and after the Eighteenth Century
- 3 Lois Roget: Curatorial Consumer in a Modern World
- Part II Theory
- 4 Clothing as Language: An Object Lesson in the Study of the Expressive Properties of Material Culture
- 5 Meaning Manufacture and Movement in the World of Goods
- Part III Practice
- 6 Consumer Goods, Gender Construction, and a Rehabilitated Trickle-down Theory
- 7 The Evocative Power of Things: Consumer Goods and the Preservation of Hopes and Ideals
- 8 Diderot Unitites and the Diderot Effect: Neglected Cultural Aspects of Consumption
- 9 Consumption, Change, and Continuity
- Notes
- References
- Index