Like McCracken's previous volume, this new book is an engaging, informative, and eye-opening foray into modern consumer culture.

Contents
Acknowledgments
I. Introduction
1. Living in the Material World
2. On Oprah
II. Homes
3. The Drew Bledsoe Paradox: The Mysterious Home Economics of Homo economicus
4. Homeyness: A Cultural Account of One Constellation of Consumer Goods and Meanings
III. Automobiles
5. Calling Grease
6. When Cars Could Fly: Raymond Loewy, John Kenneth Galbraith, and the 1954 Buick
IV. Celebrities
7. Marilyn Monroe, Inventor of Blondness
8. Who Is the Celebrity Endorser? Cultural Foundations of the Endorsement Process
V. Museums
9. The Strange Power of Uncle Meyer's Wallet
10. Culture and Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum: An Anthropological Approach to a Marketing Problem
VI. Advertising
11. Taking Madison Avenue by Storm
12. Advertising: Meaning versus Information
VII. Marketing
13. Sarah Zupko, Meet Mrs. Woolworth
14. Meaning-Management: An Anthropological Approach to the Creation of Value
Bibliography
Index