Culture and consumption II : markets, meaning, and brand management /

Main Author: McCracken, Grant David, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Living in the material world
  • On Oprah
  • The Drew Bledsoe paradox: the mysterious home economics of Homo econmicus
  • Homeyness: a cultural account of one constellation of consumer goods and meanings
  • Calling grease
  • When cars could fly: Raymond Loewy, John Kenneth Galbraith, and 1954 Buick
  • Marilyn Monroe, inventor of blondness
  • Who is the celebrity endorser? cultural foundation of the endorsement process
  • The strange power of Uncle Meyer's wallet
  • Culture and culture at the Royal Ontario Museum
  • Taking Madison avenue by storm
  • Advertising : meaning versus information
  • Sarah Zupko, meet Mrs. Woolworth
  • Meaning-management : an anthropological approach to the creation of value.