Consumption and its Consequences - Daniel Miller
`Storying the Self¿ - Ruth Finnegan
Personal Narratives and Identity
Music, Performance and Enactment - Ruth Finnegan
`Us¿ and `Them¿ - Nigel Thrift
Re-Imagining Places, Re-Imagining Identities
Broadcasting and its Audience - Shaun Moores
Consuming Communications Technologies at Home - Hugh Mackay

Reviewing key contemporary issues and debates about consumption, this accessible textbook portrays and assesses the varied and complex intersections of consumption and everyday life. The contributors show the varying balance between constraint and creativity, links between consumption and production, and the patterns which shape access to symbolic and material resources.