Collecting in a Consumer Society

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Adjunctive Behaviors
Author_Russell W. Belk
Beer Cans
Belk 1988a
Belk 1988b
bradford
casey
Category=GLZ
Category=JBFS
Category=JHM
Category=NHT
Category=WC
Claes Oldenburg
collector
consumer behaviour theory
consumption rituals
Contagious Magic
Crystal Palace Exposition
culture
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eq_isMigrated=2
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exchange
Forbidden City
Good Life
identity and possessions
Indiana State Museum
individual
institutional
Institutional Collecting
law
Louis Art Museum
Marcel Duchamp's Readymades
Marine Insurance Company
material culture studies
MOMA Exhibition
museum acquisition practices
Needles Ranging
Nordiska Museet
Oscar De La Renta
psychology of collecting behaviour
robert
Roy Lichtenstein
social anthropology research
Stamp Collectors
sumptuary
Sumptuary Laws
Sumptuary Legislation
Swedish Dentist
Terminal Materialism
Wall Hangings

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415258487
  • Weight: 340g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 17 May 2001
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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This groundbreaking book examines the relationship between the development of the consumer society and the rise of collecting by individuals and institutions. Rusell Belk considers how and why people collect, as individuals, corporations and museums, and the impact this collecting has on us and our culture.

Collecting in a Consumer Society outlines the history of museum collecting from ancient civilizations to the present. It also looks at aspects of consumer culture - advertizing, department stores, mass merchandizing, consumer desires, and how this relates to the activity of collecting.

Collecting in a Consumer Society is the first book to focus on collecting as material consumption. This is a provocative and engaging book, essential reading for anyone involved with the process of collecting.

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