Acknowledging consumption : a review of new studies / edited by Daniel Miller.
Contributor(s): Miller, Daniel
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Material type: 
BookSeries: Material cultures.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995 (1996)Description: vii, 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0415106885 ; 0415106893 .Subject(s): Consumption (Economics)DDC classification: 339.47 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 339.47 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00016299 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This work is a survey of the writings on consumption produced over the last decade. There are chapters on consumption studies in anthropology, consumer behaviour, economics, geography, history, media studies, psychology and sociology.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Consumption as the vanguard of history A polemic by way of an introduction / Daniel Miller -- Studies in the new consumer behaviour / Russell W. Belk -- The sociology of consumption / Colin Campbell -- From political economy to consumption / Ben Fine -- Consumption within historical studies / Paul Glennie -- Geographies of consumption / Peter Jackson and Nigel Thrift -- Psychological approaches to consumption varieties of research - past, present and future / Peter Lunt -- Consumption studies as the transformation of anthropology / Daniel Miller -- Theories of consumption in media studies / David Morley.