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Informationen zum Autor Grant McCracken is a member of The MIT Laboratory for Branding Cultures and a visiting scholar at McGill University and author of several books, including Culture and Consumption (IUP, 1988), Big Hair, and Transformation. Klappentext Like McCracken's previous volume, this new book is an engaging, informative, and eye-opening foray into modern consumer culture. Zusammenfassung A follow-up to "Culture and Consumption", this book trades the platitudes about the consumer society for an anthropological treatment. It includes essays on homes, cars, people, and social mobility, celebrities, consumerism, self-invention, museums and the power of objects, the anthropology of advertising, and more. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments I. Introduction 1. Living in the Material World 2. On Oprah II. Homes 3. The Drew Bledsoe Paradox: The Mysterious Home Economics of Homo economicus 4. Homeyness: A Cultural Account of One Constellation of Consumer Goods and Meanings III. Automobiles 5. Calling Grease 6. When Cars Could Fly: Raymond Loewy, John Kenneth Galbraith, and the 1954 Buick IV. Celebrities 7. Marilyn Monroe, Inventor of Blondness 8. Who Is the Celebrity Endorser? Cultural Foundations of the Endorsement Process V. Museums 9. The Strange Power of Uncle Meyer's Wallet 10. Culture and Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum: An Anthropological Approach to a Marketing Problem VI. Advertising 11. Taking Madison Avenue by Storm 12. Advertising: Meaning versus Information VII. Marketing 13. Sarah Zupko, Meet Mrs. Woolworth 14. Meaning-Management: An Anthropological Approach to the Creation of Value Bibliography Index
