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Stressing the variety of ways in which consumption is structured and organised through cultures and showing how these cultural technologies construct the person

Why do some pregnant American women eat clay? Why do Cornish women blush at the mention of skate? What is the secret of a healthy diet in Papua New Guinea. Cons

A transnational perspective allows the authors to investigate the diversity of consumer cultures and the interaction between them. They look at the genealogy of

Consuming History examines how history works in contemporary popular culture. Analysing a wide range of cultural entities from computer games to daytime televis

Contemporary theology, argues Miller, is silent on what is unquestionably one of the most important cultural issues it faces: consumerism or "consumer culture."