| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 15 |
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Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 15.
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| Contents |
Capitalism, consumption and the problem of motives: some issues in the understanding of conduct as illustrated by an examination of the treatment of motive and meaning in the works of Weber and Veblen / Colin Campbell -- Consuming interests / Orvar Löfgren -- Style and ontology / Daniel Miller -- Consumer goods as dialogue about development: colonial time and television time in Belize / Richard Wilk -- Beyond consumption: meat, sociality, vitality, and hierarchy in nineteenth century Chile / Benjamin S. Orlove -- The material culture of success: ideals and life cycles in Cameroon / Michael Rowlands -- The political economy of elegance: an African cult of beauty / Jonathan Friedman -- Strategies of centredness in Papua New Guinea / Eric Hirsch -- Leisure, boredom, and luxury consumerism: the lineage mode of consumption in a central African society / Igor Kopytoff |
| Summary |
This study is an attempt to locate the practice of consumption within more general strategies of social self-definition. The essays in this volume are addressed to the understanding of consumption in terms of a larger matrix of social identity and the cultural strategies connected with it |
| Notes |
Originally published 1994 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Consumption (Economics)
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Identity (Psychology)
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Culture
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Consumption (Economics)
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Culture
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Identity (Psychology)
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Consumptiepatroon.
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Culturele identiteit.
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Consumo (economia)
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Antropologia economica.
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Cultura.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203989481 |
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9780203989487 |
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