Consumer Culture In Latin America

Author : J. Sinclair
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137116862
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consumer Culture in Latin America written by J. Sinclair and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we understand consumption in a region known for its cultural richness and vast inequalities? What do Latin Americans consume, and why? Examining topics from tango and samba to sex workers in Costa Rica, from eating tamales to selling ice in the Andes, and from building and moving houses to buying cell phones, this collection brings together original research on some of the many forms of consumption and consumers that contribute to Latin American cultures and histories. Contributors include sociologists, anthropologists, media and cultural studies scholars, geographers and historians, showcasing diverse approaches to understanding Latin American consumption practices and consumer culture.

Author : Philip Musgrove
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : The Brookings Institution
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consumer Behavior in Latin America written by Philip Musgrove and published by Washington, D.C. : The Brookings Institution. This book was released on 1978 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic research study of consumer behaviour in Latin America - analyses family budget data collected in 10 urban areas and 5 countries (Colombia, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Ecuador), describes family income distribution, and household characteristics determining consumption patterns and standard of living. References and statistical tables.

Author : Sergio Delgado Moya
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477314377
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Delirious Consumption written by Sergio Delgado Moya and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades following World War II, the creation and expansion of massive domestic markets and relatively stable economies allowed for mass consumption on an unprecedented scale, giving rise to the consumer society that exists today. Many avant-garde artists explored the nexus between consumption and aesthetics, questioning how consumerism affects how we perceive the world, place ourselves in it, and make sense of it via perception and emotion. Delirious Consumption focuses on the two largest cultural economies in Latin America, Mexico and Brazil, and analyzes how their artists and writers both embraced and resisted the spirit of development and progress that defines the consumer moment in late capitalism. Sergio Delgado Moya looks specifically at the work of David Alfaro Siqueiros, the Brazilian concrete poets, Octavio Paz, and Lygia Clark to determine how each of them arrived at forms of aesthetic production balanced between high modernism and consumer culture. He finds in their works a provocative positioning vis-à-vis urban commodity capitalism, an ambivalent position that takes an assured but flexible stance against commodification, alienation, and the politics of domination and inequality that defines market economies. In Delgado Moya's view, these poets and artists appeal to uselessness, nonutility, and noncommunication—all markers of the aesthetic—while drawing on the terms proper to a world of consumption and consumer culture.

Author : Arnold J. Bauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521777025
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goods, Power, History written by Arnold J. Bauer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history of material culture and consumption in Latin America over the past 500 years.

Author : Lawrence B. Glickman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801484865
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consumer Society in American History written by Lawrence B. Glickman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers the most comprehensive and incisive exploration of American consumer history to date, spanning the four centuries from the colonial era to the present.

Author : Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000422585
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Globalization, 1492–1850 written by Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following a study on the world flows of American products during early globalization, here the authors examine the reverse process. By analyzing the imperial political economy, the introduction, adaptation and rejection of new food products in America, as well as of other European, Asian and African goods, American Globalization, 1492–1850, addresses the history of consumerism and material culture in the New World, while also considering the perspective of the history of ecological globalization. This book shows how these changes triggered the formation of mixed imagined communities as well as of local and regional markets that gradually became part of a global economy. But it also highlights how these forces produced a multifaceted landscape full of contrasts and recognizes the plurality of the actors involved in cultural transfers, in which trade, persuasion and violence were entwined. The result is a model of the rise of consumerism that is very different from the ones normally used to understand the European cases, as well as a more nuanced vision of the effects of ecological imperialism, which was, moreover, the base for the development of unsustainable capitalism still present today in Latin America. Chapters 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, and 13 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com

Author : Natalia Milanesio
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826352413
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Workers Go Shopping in Argentina written by Natalia Milanesio and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dr. Milanesio examines the ways mass consumption transformed Argentina in the twentieth century in a comprehensive analysis of the relations between consumers, goods, manufacturers, advertisers, and the state during Juan Peron's reign. She examines the social and political changes that occurred when the general population became consumers of industrial goods and participants in consumption"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Steven B. Bunker
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826344569
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz written by Steven B. Bunker and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, a character articulates the fascination goods, technology, and modernity held for many Latin Americans in the early twentieth century when he declares that “incredible things are happening in this world.” The modernity he marvels over is the new availability of cheap and useful goods. Steven Bunker’s study shows how goods and consumption embodied modernity in the time of Porfirio Díaz, how they provided proof to Mexicans that “incredible things are happening in this world.” In urban areas, and especially Mexico City, being a consumer increasingly defined what it meant to be Mexican. In an effort to reconstruct everyday life in Porfirian Mexico, Bunker surveys the institutions and discourses of consumption and explores how individuals and groups used the goods, practices, and spaces of urban consumer culture to construct meaning and identities in the rapidly evolving social and physical landscape of the capital city and beyond. Through case studies of tobacco marketing, department stores, advertising, shoplifting, and a famous jewelry robbery and homicide, he provides a colorful walking tour of daily life in Porfirian Mexico City. Emphasizing the widespread participation in this consumer culture, Bunker’s work overturns conventional wisdom that only the middle and upper classes participated in this culture.

Author : Arlene D‡vila
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520286847
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book El Mall written by Arlene D‡vila and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "El Mall considers the boom of shopping malls in Latin America to explore how malls and consumption are shaping the conversation about class and social inequality in Latin America"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Néstor García Canclini
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816629879
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consumers and Citizens written by Néstor García Canclini and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestor Garcia Canclini, the best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin America, maps the critical effects of urban sprawl, global media, and commodity markets on citizens. The complex results mean not only a shrinkage of certain traditional rights (particularly those of the welfare or client state) but also indicate new openings for expanding citizenship.