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Three Fragments in Search of a Paper
Comments on Consumption and Commodities
(With Sporadic Reference to Africa)
Timothy Burke
Department of History, Swarthmore College
Abstract:
Reflections on capital, commodities, and consumerism in three sections:
"Unwretched Excess: The Fecundity of Capitalism in an Impoverished Place"
"Confessions of a Fetishist" and
"Serendipity and Failure: New Approaches to Consumer Agency"
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