The seers of Menlo Park: The discourse of heroic consumption in the 'Whole Earth Catalog'

Journal of Consumer Culture

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 283-313

  Binkley, Sam ^a  

^a EMERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalogs; Consumption; Counterculture; Lifestyles; Middle classes; Postmodernism

Indexed keywords

EID: 17844378240     PISSN: 14695405     EISSN: 17412900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14695405030033001     Document Type: Article

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