Grant McCracken explained

Grant McCracken
Birth Place:	Canada
Occupation:	Author lecturer
Genres:	Culture, commerce, business
Notableworks:	Chief Culture Officer, Transformations

Grant David McCracken (born 1951) is a Canadian anthropologist and author, known for his books about culture and commerce.^{[1] [2]} He was the founder and director of the Institute for Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum and was a member of Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago. He coined the term the Diderot effect.^[3] He lives in Rowayton, Connecticut.^[4]

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

External links

• Culture By Grant McCracken's blog
• Audio interview on Chief Culture Officer
• Audio Interview on Culturematic Harvard Business Review

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Psychology Today Profile. Psychology Today. February 2005. dead. https://archive.today/20140220115915/http://www.psychologytoday.com/experts/grant-mccracken-phd. 2014-02-20.
2. Lee, Kate. Culturematic Review. Publishers Weekly. (March 26, 2012)
3. Book: 10.1002/9781118989463.wbeccs095. Diderot Effect. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies. 2015. Lorenzen. Janet A.. 1. 9781118989463.
4. Source: Indiana University Press bio, accessed 25/1/2008