Abstract

DUARTE, Alice. The anthropology and the study of consumption: critical review of their relations and possibilities. Etnográfica [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.2, pp.363-393. ISSN 0873-6561.

The paper begins by placing in time the emergency of consumption as an area of anthropological investigation, seeking to expose the circumstances that made the establishment of an anthropology of consumption rather difficult. Next, following the development steps within that area of studies, the paper presents a selective synthesis of authors and works that, in any way, are making a change to a real concern on the study of consumption.

Keywords : anthropology of consumption; critical review; Mauss; Marx; theories of consumption; regimes of consumption.

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