Culture and consumption II : markets, meaning, and brand management
by
 
McCracken, Grant David, 1951-

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

Author
McCracken, Grant David, 1951-

ISBN
9780253217615
 
9780253345660

Personal Author
McCracken, Grant David, 1951-

Publication Information
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Physical Description
x, 226 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents
1. Living in the material world -- 2. On Oprah -- 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 -- 5. Calling grease -- 6. When cars could fly : Raymond Loewy, John Kenneth Galbraith, and the 1954 Buick -- 7. Marilyn Monroe, inventor of blondness -- 8. Who is the celebrity endorser? : cultural foundations of the endorsement process -- 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 -- 11. Taking Madison Avenue by storm -- 12. Advertising : meaning versus information -- 13. Sarah Zupko, meet Mrs. Woolworth -- 14. Meaning-management : an anthropological approach to the creation of value.

Subject Term
Consumption (Economics) -- History.
 
Culture -- History.
 
Social values -- History.


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