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Buying and Believing: Sri Lankan Advertising and Consumers in a Transnational World

Steven Kemper

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Description:Every day advertising exposes consumers around the world to practices associated with the West, urban life, prosperity, and modernity. At least, that's usually how we think of it. Here Steven Kemper investigates how the Sri Lankan advertising industry uses these practices. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted over thirty years, Kemper shows how executives in Kuala Lumpur and Colombo use their skills as folk ethnographers to domesticate commodities and practices, essentially producing new forms of culture. Addressing many of the most pressing agendas of contemporary anthropology and providing one of the first anthropological perspectives on advertising, Buying and Believing presents a groundbreaking account of advertising and consumption that is both transnational and ethnographic.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Buying and Believing: Sri Lankan Advertising and Consumers in a Transnational World. To get started finding Buying and Believing: Sri Lankan Advertising and Consumers in a Transnational World, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Every day advertising exposes consumers around the world to practices associated with the West, urban life, prosperity, and modernity. At least, that's usually how we think of it. Here Steven Kemper investigates how the Sri Lankan advertising industry uses these practices. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted over thirty years, Kemper shows how executives in Kuala Lumpur and Colombo use their skills as folk ethnographers to domesticate commodities and practices, essentially producing new forms of culture. Addressing many of the most pressing agendas of contemporary anthropology and providing one of the first anthropological perspectives on advertising, Buying and Believing presents a groundbreaking account of advertising and consumption that is both transnational and ethnographic.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Buying and Believing: Sri Lankan Advertising and Consumers in a Transnational World. To get started finding Buying and Believing: Sri Lankan Advertising and Consumers in a Transnational World, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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