Consumer Culture in Latin America

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Understanding Consumer Culture in Latin America: An Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
New Social and Business Models in Latin American Musics....Pages 17-33
The Advertising Industry in Latin America: A Contemporary Overview....Pages 35-50
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
From “Country of the Future” to Emergent Country: Popular Consumption in Brazil....Pages 53-65
Chile’s Forgotten Consumers: Poor Urban Families, Consumption Strategies, and the Moral Economy of Risk in Santiago....Pages 67-79
Peasants and Pirámides: Consumer Fantasies in the Colombian Andes....Pages 81-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Decorating the New House: The Material Culture of Social Mobility....Pages 93-106
Stitching Identities: Clothing Production and Consumption in Mexico City....Pages 107-120
Christmas Tamales in Costa Rica (1900–1930)....Pages 121-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Quinceañera: Coming of Age through Digital Photography in Cuba....Pages 137-148
Images of Work for Consumption: Factory’s Representations in Ideological Propaganda and Advertising....Pages 149-162
Tango, Samba, and National Identities: Similarities and Differences in the Foundational Myths of “Mi Noche Triste” and “Pelo Telefone”....Pages 163-173
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Spaces of Consumerism and the Consumption of Space: Tourism and Social Exclusion in the “Mayan Riviera”....Pages 177-193
Singing for Shaved Ice: Glacial Loss and Raspadilla in the Peruvian Andes....Pages 195-205
Becoming Middle Class? Consumption, Respectability, and Place in Sex Tourism....Pages 207-219
Back Matter....Pages 221-235