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1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : commodities and cultural borders / David Howes -- The empire's old clothes : fashioning the colonial subject / Jean Comaroff -- Sugar cane, coca-cola and hypermarkets : consumption and surrealism in the Argentine Northwest / Constance Classen -- Perishable goods : modes of consumption in the Pacific Islands / Jean-Marc Philibert and Christine Jourdan -- Cooking the books : global or local identities in contemporary British food cultures? / Allison James -- Coffee breaks and coffee connections : the lived experience of a commodity in Tanzanian and European worlds / Brad Weiss --Selling Guatemala : Maya export products in US mail-order catalogues / Carol Hendrickson -- Negotiating identities in Quito's cultural borderlands : native women's performances for the Ecuadorean tourist market / Mary M Crain -- Cultural appropriation and resistance in the American Southwest : decommodifying 'Indianness' / David Howes -- Transforming images ; communication technologies and cultural identity in Nishnawbe-Aski / Marian Bredin -- Epilogue : the dynamics and ethics of cross-cultural consumption / Constance Classen and David Howes. |
Summary |
What does an American refrigerator mean in the Solomon Islands?Cross-Cultural Consumption is a fascinating guide to the cultural implications of the globalization of a consumer society. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects.
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Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects. |
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Consumption (Economics) |
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Culture diffusion -- Economic aspects.
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Culture diffusion -- Economic aspects. |
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Culture diffusion. |
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Diffusion of innovations -- Social aspects.
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Diffusion of innovations -- Social aspects. |
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Diffusion of innovations. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Howes, David, 1957- editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Howes, David, 1957- Cross-cultural consumption. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996 0415138884 (DLC) 96007701 (OCoLC)34475591 |
ISBN |
0585448175 (electronic book) |
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9780585448176 (electronic book) |
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0203437780 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780203437780 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0203746023 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780203746028 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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1280109947 |
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9781280109942 |
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9780415138895 |
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0415138892 |
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0415138884 (Cloth) |
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0415138892 (Paper) |
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