A multi-disciplinary overview providing new theories, critical analyses and the latest reasearch on this very fashionable topic. Includes chapters on consumption studies in anthropology, economics, history, sociology and many more areas.

List of figures, Contributors, 1 CONSUMPTION AS THE VANGUARD OF HISTORY, 2 STUDIES IN THE NEW CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR, 3 THE SOCIOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION, 4 FROM POLITICAL ECONOMY TO CONSUMPTION, 5 CONSUMPTION WITHIN HISTORICAL STUDIES, 6 GEOGRAPHIES OF CONSUMPTION, 7 PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO CONSUMPTION, 8 CONSUMPTION STUDIES AS THE TRANSFORMATION OF ANTHROPOLOGY, 9 THEORIES OF CONSUMPTION IN MEDIA STUDIES, Index