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Consumer culture in Latin America
Title
Consumer culture in Latin America / edited by John Sinclair and Anna Cristina Pertierra.
ISBN
9781137116864
1137116862
0230340733
9780230340732
9781283947282
1283947285
9781349343393
1349343390
Edition
First edition.
Published
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource. (vi, 235 pages) : illustrations, map
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Summary
This collection brings together 20 original papers demonstrating the rise of scholarly interest in Latin American consumer cultures across the contemporary humanities and social sciences. The collection captures the landscape of recent developments across disciplines to understand how consumption practices and consumer culture is transforming modern Latin America. It highlights connections between previously disparate approaches to Latin American consumption by studying cultural production, state policies, economic structures, environmental factors, domestic life, urban development, tourism and more.
Variant and related titles
Palgrave political & international studies collection 2013.
Other formats
Print version: Consumer culture in Latin America. New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2012
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 19, 2018
Contents
Understanding consumer culture in Latin America : an introduction / John Sinclair and Anna Cristina Pertierra
New social and business models in Latin American musics / George Yúdice
The advertising industry in Latin America : a contemporary overview / John Sinclair
From "country of the future" to emergent country : popular consumption in Brazil / Ruben George Oliven and Rosana Pinheiro-Machado
Chile's forgotten consumers : poor urban families, consumption strategies, and the moral economy of risk in Santiago / Joel Stillerman
Peasants and Pirámides : consumer fantasies in the Colombian Andes / Jason Antrosio
Decorating the new house : the material culture of social mobility / Tomas Ariztia
Stitching identities : clothing production and consumption in Mexico City / Marie Francois
Christmas tamales in Costa Rica (1900-1930) / Patricia Vega Jiménez ; translated by Fergus Grealy and Anna Cristina Pertierra
Quinceañera : coming of age through digital photography in Cuba / Anna Cristina Pertierra
Images of work for consumption : factory's representation in ideological propaganda and advertising / Vander Casaqui ; translated by Marcela Ferreira da Silva and Anna Cristina Pertierra
Tango, samba, and national identities : similarities and differences in the foundational myths of "Mi noche triste" and "Pelo telefone" / Ronaldo Helal and Hugo Rodolfo Lovisolo ; translated by Marc Figuerola Delgado and Anna Cristina Pertierra
Spaces of consumerism and the consumption of space : tourism and social exclusion in the "Mayan Riviera" / David Manuel-Navarrete and Michael Redclift
Singing for shaved ice : glacial loss and Raspadilla in the Peruvian Andes / Katherine W. Dunbar and Katy Damacia Medina Marcos
Becoming middle class? Consumption, respectability, and place in sex tourism / Megan Rivers-Moore.
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