| List of Contributors | vii |
| List of Figures | ix |
| List of Tables | xi |
| Introduction Consumer Culture Fairy Tales Domen Bajde, Dannie Kjeldgaard and Russell W. Belk | 1 |
| Part I Objects and Their Doings | |
| Chapter 1 Love and Locks: Consumers Making Pilgrimages and Performing Love Rituals Stéphane Borraz | 7 |
| Chapter 2 The Life and Death of Anthony Barbie: A Consumer Culture Tale of Lovers, Butlers, and Crashers Luciana Walther | 23 |
| Chapter 3 “When Your Dog Matches Your Decor”: Object Agency of Living and Non-living Entities in Home Assemblage Henna Syrjälä and Anu Norrgrann | 39 |
| Chapter 4 “I’m Only a Guardian of these Objects”: Vintage Traders, Curatorial Consumption and the Meaning(s) of Objects Omar Khaled Abdelrahman, Emma Banister and Daniel Hampson | 55 |
| Part II Glocalization | |
| Chapter 5 Story of Cool: Journey from the West to Emerging Arab Countries Hela Zouaoui and Fatma Smaoui | 73 |
| Chapter 6 Ethnic Identification: Capital and Distinction among Second-generation British Indians Anuja Pradhan, Hayley Cocker and Margaret K. Hogg | 85 |
| Chapter 7 Cognitive Polyphasia, Cultural Legitimacy and Behavior Change: The Case of the Illicit Alcohol Market in Kenya Virginia N. Mwangi, Hayley L. Cocker and Maria G. Piacentini | 103 |
| Part III Constituting Markets | |
| Chapter 8 Magic Towns: Creating the Consumer Fetish in Market Research Test Sites Stefan Schwarzkopf | 121 |
| Chapter 9 Humanizing Market Relationships:The DIY Extended Family Lydia Ottlewski, Johanna F. Gollnhofer and John W. Schouten | 137 |
| Chapter 10 Patriotism as Creative (Counter-)Conduct of Russian Fashion Designers Olga Gurova | 151 |
| Chapter 11 Culinary Communication Practices: The Role of Retail Spaces in Producing Field-specific Cultural Capital Cristina Galalae, Julie Emontspool and Omid Omidvar | 169 |
| Part IV Quoth the Raven | |
| Chapter 12 Duck, it’s a Raven! Writing Stirring Stories with Andersen’s Sinister Shadow Stephen Brown | 185 |
| Index | 197 |
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