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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Dramaturgies of Value in Market Places
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Blurred Boundaries Between Market and Home
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Global Patrons, Globalizing Markets
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Back Matter
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Reviews
'Shattering the image of an impersonal market governed by the intersection of price and quality, Dan Cook and his talented collaborators demonstrate that shopping and buying involve rich social experience all the way down. What's more, they uncover that richness in distinctive places across most of the world.' - Viviana A. Zelizer, Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, USA, and author of The Purchase of Intimacy
'This book is one of most encouraging signs that a rich, productive and fully integrated approach to economic life is finally in the making. Avoiding the dead-ends of both culturalism and economism, and with a seriously internationalist perspective, the contributors have genuinely fulfilled their promise to treat market, shopping and consumption practices as 'lived experiences'.
- Don Slater, Reader in Sociology, London School of Economics, UK, and author of Consumer Culture and Modernity
'One of the most important concepts to draw from this book is that the rational actor still exists, but rationality is not all in operation, and detail with which that concept is illustrated makes this an engaging read for those interested in consumption and its construction.' - Ryan Denniston, Accounts - ASA Economics Sociology Section Newsletter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lived Experiences of Public Consumption
Book Subtitle: Encounters with Value in Marketplaces on Five Continents
Editors: Daniel Thomas Cook
Series Title: Consumption and Public Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230591264
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-51704-2Published: 27 February 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35484-9Published: 01 January 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59126-4Published: 27 February 2008
Series ISSN: 2947-8227
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8235
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 251
Topics: Customer Relationship Management, Human Geography, Cultural Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology, general, Cultural Anthropology