Immaculate Consumption: A Critique of the "Shop till you drop" School of Human Behavior

International Journal of Historical Archeology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 191-199

  Wurst, LouAnn ^a   McGuire, Randall H ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Class; Consumerism; Ideology; Social reproduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009948660     PISSN: 10927697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021914220703     Document Type: Article

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