ISBN:
9781611495171
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (231 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Shopping : Material Culture Perspectives
DDC:
306.3/4
Keywords:
Consumer behavior - United States - History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
〈span〉〈span〉We all shop. The essays in this wide-ranging anthology demonstrates how a material culture perspective-a focus on the mutual creation of people and their things-yields significant insights into multiple aspects of consumption in American culture. 〈/span〉〈/span〉
Description / Table of Contents:
Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: The Spaces of Shopping; Chapter Two: Woolworth to Walmart; Chapter Three: Shopping Malls; Chapter Four: Passages; Chapter Five: The Shop Around the Corner; Chapter Six: Farmers' Markets, Food, and the Architecture of Control; Chapter Seven: Living in a Bubble in the 1950s; Chapter Eight: A Toxic Safari in a Big Box Store; Chapter Nine: Secondhand Learning; Chapter Ten: In Conversation; Index; About the Contributors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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