The sweetness of salvation: Consumer marketing and the liberal-bourgeois theory of needs

Current Anthropology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 323-349

  Applbaum, Kalman ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b NONE   (United States)

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EID: 0000952708     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/204737     Document Type: Article

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