Consumption and identity
By: Jonathan Friedman
Series: Studies in anthropology and history -- v. 15; Studies in anthropology and history -- v. 15.
Publisher: Harwood Academic Pub.
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Chur, Switzerland
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780203989487
Subjects: Macroeconomics; Consumption (Economics); Economics; Antropologia economica; Consumo (economia); Culture; Economic Conditions; Cultura; POLITICAL SCIENCE; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Identity (Psychology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Capitalism, consumption and the problem of motives: some issues in the understanding of conduct as illustrated by an examination of the treatment of motive and meaning in the works of Weber and Veblen / Colin Campbell; title: Consuming interests / Orvar Lo fgren; title: Style and ontology / Daniel Miller; title: Consumer goods as dialogue about development: colonial time and television time in Belize / Richard Wilk; title: Beyond consumption: meat, sociality, vitality, and hierarchy in nineteenth century Chile / Benjamin S. Orlove; title: The material culture of success: ideals and life cycles in Cameroon / Michael Rowlands; title: The political economy of elegance: an African cult of beauty / Jonathan Friedman; title: Strategies of centredness in Papua New Guinea / Eric Hirsch; title: Leisure, boredom, and luxury consumerism: the lineage mode of consumption in a central African society / Igor Kopytoff.