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The consuming body / Pasi Falk

Falk, Pasi [Verfasser]

London [u.a.] : Sage Publications, 1994

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 238 pages) : Illustrations

Theory, culture & society

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-231) and indexes

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

978-1-84860-972-3 ; 1-84860-972-8 ; 0-585-33693-8 ; 978-0-585-33693-0 ; 978-1-4462-5064-8 ; 1-4462-5064-4 ; 0-8039-8973-3

MS 5560

 

Körper  Wirtschaftstheorie  Kulturanthropologie  Soziale Identität  Repräsentation, Soziologie  Geschmack  Verbraucherverhalten  Soziologie  Leiblichkeit 

 

Pasi Falk offers a major synthesis and critical assessment of the debates surrounding the body, the self and contemporary consumer culture. He explores two fundamental issues for modern social theory - the delineation of modern consumption and the body's historically changing position in various cultural orders.