Grant David McCracken (born 1951) is a Canadian
anthropologist
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and
author
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, known for his books about
culture
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and
commerce
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.
[Lee, Kate]
Culturematic Review
''Publishers Weekly''. (March 26, 2012) He was the founder and director of the
Institute for Contemporary Culture at the
Royal Ontario Museum
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and was a member of Convergence Culture Consortium at
MIT
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.
He holds a Ph.D. in
anthropology
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from the
University of Chicago
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.
He coined the term the
Diderot effect. He lives in
Rowayton,
Connecticut
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.
[Source: ]Indiana University Press
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bio, accessed 25/1/2008
Bibliography
* 1988 ''The Long Interview''
* 1990 ''Culture and Consumption''
* 1996 ''Big Hair''
* 1997 ''Plenitude''
* 2005 ''Culture and Consumption II''
* 2006 ''Flock and Flow''
* 2008 ''Transformations''
* 2009 ''Chief Culture Officer''
* 2012 ''Culturematic''
* 2016 ''Dark Value''
* 2020 ''The New Honor Code''
* 2022 ''Return of the Artisan''
See also
*
Diderot effect
References
External links
Culture ByGrant McCracken's blog
Audio interview on Chief Culture OfficerHarvard Business Review
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Canadian bloggers
1951 births
Living people
University of Chicago alumni
Harvard Business School faculty
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