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"Following extensive research in Canada, England and France, author Frances Slaney sheds light on the career of Marius Barbeau, delivering the first in-depth assessment of his ethnographic fieldwork and publications as a reflection of his studies abroad (Oxford and Paris, 1907-1911)."--

This text provides an overview of concepts, theories, and methods related to the study of household consumption. It summarizes the most recent data on consumption patterns and trends, together with factors that influence consumption--population trends, prices, and distribution of resources--and examines how consumption data are used by business, government, and other organizations.||The work will give the student a knowledge of household consumption patterns and an understanding of how to use such knowledge. Its three general purposes, which correspons tto the three parts of the book, are: to