Advertising and Consumption

Anthropological Studies in Brazil

Everardo Rocha

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Routledge
31 May 2023

Society & culture: general; Sociology; Social & cultural anthropology; Economics; Advertising

Series: Anthropology and Business

This book argues for the study of consumption and its relationship with media images, particularly advertising, from a cultural perspective. Focused on Brazil, it draws on decades of research by the author and engages with theory and concepts from a range of classic anthropological works. The chapters examine how advertising professionals view their craft, the resistance to capitalism amongst native Brazilians, images of women and their bodies in magazines, and the case of the first soccer player to become a national media celebrity. Rocha supports the study of consumption as a classification system that materializes culture and creates relations between people and goods. The book presents advertising as a mode of magical thinking that mediates the passage from the machine-driven sphere of production to the humanized sphere of consumption, converting meaningless impersonal things into goods that have name, origin, identity and purpose. It will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists and others working on advertising, marketing, communications, and consumer research.

By: Everardo Rocha
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9781032010212
ISBN 10: 1032010215
Series: Anthropology and Business
Pages: 142
Publication Date: 31 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1 Guilt and pleasure: challenges and possibilities for understanding consumer culture; Part I – Perspectives on consumption through fieldwork experiences; 2 Totemism in the market: Lévi-Strauss as an inspiration for consumption research; 3 A tribe of white collars: bricoleurs in the business of advertising; 4 Against capital: the resistance to economic thought among the Terena of central Brazil; Part II – Perspectives on consumption through media images; 5 The woman in pieces: advertising and the construction of feminine identity; 6 Classified beauty: goods and bodies in women’s magazines (with Marina Frid); 7 A star player in the world of goods: marketing and the first Brazilian soccer celebrity (with William Corbo)

Everardo Rocha is a Full Professor in the Graduate Program in Communication of the Department of Social Communication at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil. He received his PhD in Social Anthropology from the National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). His research has the support of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and the Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for the Support of Research in the State of Rio de Janeiro (Faperj). Everardo Rocha is author of numerous books, edited volumes, and articles on the anthropology of consumption, advertising, and Brazilian culture.