| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 235 pages) : illustrations, map |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Consumption (Economics) -- Latin America
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Consumers -- Latin America
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Consumers
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Consumption (Economics)
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Latin America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sinclair, John, 1944-
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Pertierra, Anna Cristina.
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| LC no. |
2012036657 |
| ISBN |
9781137116864 |
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1137116862 |
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0230340733 |
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9780230340732 |
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9781283947282 |
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1283947285 |
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9781349343393 |
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1349343390 |
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