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Title Cross-cultural consumption : global markets, local realities / edited by David Howes.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description 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.
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Subject Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects.
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects.
Consumption (Economics)
Culture diffusion -- Economic aspects.
Culture diffusion -- Economic aspects.
Culture diffusion.
Diffusion of innovations -- Social aspects.
Diffusion of innovations -- Social aspects.
Diffusion of innovations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Howes, David, 1957- editor.
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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0415138884 (Cloth)
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