Top 10 Best "Consumption" Books

What's Mine Is Yours

Rachel Botsman
Roo Rogers

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Obsessive Consumption

Kate Bingaman-Burt

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Obsessive Consumption

Our daily lives are filled with consumption—$1.50 for a cup of coffee, $5.95 for a magazine, $17.99 for headphones, $1.79 for cough drops, $36.00 for a haircut. Whether bought out of necessity or indulgence, purchased alone or in a group, everything we buy has its own story to tell. We buy art supplies while feeling inspired, CDs while shopping with friends, and a new pair of jeans to give us a lift when we are feeling blue. Yet, these powerfully emotional experiences can be fleeting—quickly erased by the pull of the next "must-have" acquisition. In Obsessive Consumption , Portland-based artist Kate Bingaman-Burt holds up a mirror to her own obsession with shopping and acquisition. Faced with a mounting pile of postgraduation credit card debt, Bingaman-Burt concocted a unique artistic response to this all-too-common dilemma. She picked up a pen and began drawing her monthly credit card statements, painstakingly recreating every last ledger line and decimal point, vowing to continue serving her artistic penance until her debt was repaid. As a relief from this project&mdash...

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Confronting Consumption

Thomas Princen
Michael Maniates
Ken Conca

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Consumption Economics

J.B. Wood
Todd Hewlin
Thomas Lah

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The Shadows of Consumption

Peter Dauvergne

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The Information Diet

Clay A. Johnson

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Conspicuous Consumption (Penguin Great Ideas)

Thorsten Veblen

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Consumption

G. S. Johnston

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Consumption

Kevin Patterson

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A Consumers' Republic

Lizabeth Cohen

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Culture and Consumption II

A follow-up to Grant McCracken's groundbreaking Culture and Consumption, this new book trades the usual platitudes about the consumer society for a more detailed, exacting anthropological treatment. Each section of the book pairs a brief essay with an academic article. The essay is designed for a quick, provocative glimpse of the topic; the article provides a deeper anthropological treatment. The book opens with a broadside against the now thoroughly conventionalized attack on the consumer culture. Essays follow on homes, cars, people, and social mobility; celebrities, consumerism, and self-invention; museums and the power of objects; the anthropology of advertising; and marketing, meaning management, and value. Like McCracken's previous volume, this new book is an engaging, informative, and eye-opening foray into modern consumer culture.

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Culture and Consumption II

Grant David McCracken

Consumption

Culture and Consumption

Grant David McCracken

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