Poststructuralist lifestyle analysis: Conceptualizing the social patterning of consumption in postmodernity

Journal of Consumer Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 326-350

  Holt, Douglas B ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0031527101     PISSN: 00935301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/209487     Document Type: Article

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