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Commercial Cultures: Economies, Practices, Spaces (Leisure, Consumption & Culture)
by (Editor: P.A. Jackson) (Editor: Michelle Lowe) (Editor: Daniel Miller) (Editor: Frank Mort)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Berg Publishers (2000-10-01)
ISBN: 1859733778
EAN: 9781859733776
Dewy Decimal #: 301
Hardcover: 224 pages
Edition: First
SKU: B191-1059
Condition: New
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Culture and Economy
Rating  (2)
Date: 2003-04-21
3 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Once again, this is a book from the Material Culture studies propagated by Daniel Miller et al. It purveys the overall idea, that the economy cannot be separated from culture, and that further, this may be shown in substantive empirical examples. With a focus on shopping, this time, Miller et al. try to survey general aspects of the world of consumption. It may be easy to find cultural influences upon buying behaviour in the context of designer clothes, but this may be more difficult when looking at the more technical aspects of the economy under the auspices of Economists. Whilest reading Commercial Cultures, I was reminded of the other books on material culture, starting from Material Culture and Mass Consumption, Car Cultures, etc. It did not seem to offer anything substantively new and the ethnographic work (Tuperware boxes, very general designer clothes analysis) was unconvincing. It would be nice to finally stop the over-indulgence on consumption studies and focus on more challenging domains of material culture - where it is less easy to see cultural influences upon economics. Otherwise, this is merely an instrument of intellectual brain-washing.
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