ISBN:
9780230340732
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (247 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Consumer Culture in Latin America
DDC:
306.3098
Keywords:
Cultural policy
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A multidisciplinary collection of new research in the humanities and social sciences on the role of consumption and consumers in modern Latin American cultures.
Abstract:
A multidisciplinary collection of new research in the humanities and social sciences on the role of consumption and consumers in modern Latin American cultures
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Understanding Consumer Culture in Latin America: An Introduction; Part 1 Transnational Developments; 1. New Social and Business Models in Latin American Musics; 2. The Advertising Industry in Latin America: A Contemporary Overview; Part 2 Getting and Spending; 3. From "Country of the Future" to Emergent Country: Popular Consumption in Brazil; 4. Chile's Forgotten Consumers: Poor Urban Families, Consumption Strategies, and the Moral Economy of Risk in Santiago
Description / Table of Contents:
5. Peasants and Pirámides: Consumer Fantasies in the Colombian AndesPart 3 Domestic Practice; 6. Decorating the New House: The Material Culture of Social Mobility; 7. Stitching Identities: Clothing Production and Consumption in Mexico City; 8. Christmas Tamales in Costa Rica (1900-1930) Patricia Vega Jiménez. Translated by Fergus Grealy and; Part 4 Images and Soundscapes; 9. Quinceañera: Coming of Age through Digital Photography in Cuba; 10. Images of Work for Consumption: Factory's Representations in Ideological Propaganda and Advertising
Description / Table of Contents:
11. Tango, Samba, and National Identities: Similarities and Differences in the Foundational Myths of "Mi Noche Triste" and "Pelo Telefone"Part 5 Spaces and Places; 12. Spaces of Consumerism and the Consumption of Space: Tourism and Social Exclusion in the "Mayan Riviera"; 13. Singing for Shaved Ice: Glacial Loss and Raspadilla in the Peruvian Andes; 14. Becoming Middle Class? Consumption, Respectability, and Place in Sex Tourism; Contributors; Index
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