The study of the consumption of goods has never achieved the prominence in anthropology of either production or … exchange. Yet the accelerating consumption of western goods in non-western societies is one of the most obtrusive cultural and … economic trends of the last three centuries. This article addresses the general issue of why goods flow between cultural groups …

identification of consumption contexts based on their building blocks (actors, goods, relationships), the basic classification of … that services are produced in two contexts: in the first type, consumers interact directly with goods; in the second, the … intermediation of frontline personnel comes into play. Actors and goods present in the consumption contexts are knowledge …

This text briefly depicts the history of an encounter between anthropology and organization theory in the Anglo …