Consumer fairy tales of the perfect christmas: Villains and other Dramatis Personae

Contemporary Consumption Rituals: A Research Anthology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 99-122

  Lowrey, Tina M ^a   Otnes, Cele C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410610720     Document Type: Chapter

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