Studying Consumption Behaviour through Multiple Lenses: An Overview of Consumer Culture Theory
Abstract
Since Miller’s (1995) ground-breaking directive to the anthropology community to research consumption within the context of production, CCT has come of age, offering distinctive insights into the complexities of consumer behaviour. CCT positions itself at the nexus of disciplines as varied as anthropology, sociology, media studies, critical studies, and feminist studies; overlapping foci bring theoretical innovation to studies of human behaviours in the marketplace. In this paper, we provide asynthesis of CCT research since its inception, along with more recent publications. We follow the four thematic domains of research as devised by Arnould and Thompson (2005): consumer identity projects, marketplace cultures, the socio-historic patterning of consumption, and mass-mediated marketplace ideologies and consumers’ interpretive strategies. Additionally, we investigate new directions for future connections between CCT research and anthropology.
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Annamma Joy, Eric Ping Hung Li (2012). Studying Consumption Behaviour through Multiple Lenses: An Overview of Consumer Culture Theory. Journal of Business Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v1i1.3550
@article{annamma2012studying,
title = {Studying Consumption Behaviour through Multiple Lenses: An Overview of Consumer Culture Theory},
author = {Joy, Annamma and Li, Eric Ping Hung},
year = {2012},
journal = {Journal of Business Anthropology},
doi = {10.22439/jba.v1i1.3550}
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