Culture and Consumption II: Markets, Meaning, and Brand Management
A follow-up to Grant McCracken’s groundbreaking Culture and Consumption, this new book trades the usual platitudes about the consumer society for a more detailed, exacting anthropological treatment. Each section of the book pairs a brief essay with an academic article. The essay is designed for a quick, provocative glimpse of the topic; the article provides a deeper anthropological treatment. The book opens with a broadside against the now thoroughly conventionalized attack on the consumer...
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A follow-up to Grant McCracken's groundbreaking Culture and Consumption, this new book trades the usual platitudes about the consumer society for a more detailed, exacting anthropological treatment. Each section of the book pairs a brief essay with an academic article. The essay is designed for a quick, provocative glimpse of the topic; the article provides a deeper anthropological treatment. The book opens with a broadside against the now thoroughly conventionalized attack on the consumer culture. Essays follow on homes, cars, people, and social mobility; celebrities, consumerism, and self-invention; museums and the power of objects; the anthropology of advertising; and marketing, meaning management, and value. Like McCracken's previous volume, this new book is an engaging, informative, and eye-opening foray into modern consumer culture.
1Living in the material world32On Oprah63The Drew Bledsoe paradox : the mysterious home economics of homo economicus194Homeyness : a cultural account of one constellation of consumer goods and meanings225Calling grease516When cars could fly : Raymond Loewy, John Kenneth Galbraith, and the 1954 Buick537Marilyn Monroe, inventor of blondness938Who is the celebrity endorser? : cultural foundations of the endorsement process979The strange power of Uncle Meyer's wallet11910Culture and culture at the Royal Ontario Museum : an anthropological approach to a marketing problem12211Taking Madison Avenue by storm16112Advertising : meaning versus information16213Sarah Zupko, meet Mrs. Woolworth17314Meaning-management : an anthropological approach to the creation of value175
\ Choice"This highly readable volume pairs informal essays with scholarly articles, all providing rich anthropological perspectives on the material elements of everyday life and how people build their identities, experiences, and relationships through them.... this collection of insights and arguments will serve general audiences, marketers, and students looking for fruitful ways of assessing consumer culture. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; students, lower-division undergraduate and up; and professionals." —Choice, February 2006\ \ \ \ \ Journal of Advertising Research"... [McCracken's] freshness is as inspired and uplifting as it is novel. Culture and Consumption II is a wonderful read." —Journal of Advertising Research\ \ \ Museum Anthropology Review"Freakonomics, meet brandthropology. In this concise volume (a companion to his watershed 1998 effort) of articulate introspection and insightful ethnographic essays, the author exhorts anthropologists to take back their culture.... Culture and Consumption II is well suited for adoption as a supplementary text at any level in courses dealing with material culture or museology." —Museum Anthropology Review\ \
