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
