Advertising and Consumption : Anthropological Studies in Brazil Paperback / softback
by Everardo Rocha
Part of the Anthropology & Business series
Paperback / softback
Description
This book argues for the study of consumption and its relationship with media images, particularly advertising, from a cultural perspective.
Focused on Brazil, it draws on decades of research by the author and engages with theory and concepts from a range of classic anthropological works.
The chapters examine how advertising professionals view their craft, the resistance to capitalism amongst native Brazilians, images of women and their bodies in magazines, and the case of the first soccer player to become a national media celebrity.
Rocha supports the study of consumption as a classification system that materializes culture and creates relations between people and goods.
The book presents advertising as a mode of magical thinking that mediates the passage from the machine-driven sphere of production to the humanized sphere of consumption, converting meaningless impersonal things into goods that have name, origin, identity and purpose.
It will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists and others working on advertising, marketing, communications, and consumer research.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:142 pages, 5 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2023
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- ISBN:9781032010212
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:142 pages, 5 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032010212
