Carolyn Folkman Curasi

Biographic Data

ID140168
NAMECarolyn Folkman Curasi
GIVEN NAMESCarolyn Folkman
FAMILY NAMECurasi
SIGNATURECURASI C F
AFFILIATIONSBerry College
ORCID0000-0002-0329-8514
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS146
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
H-INDEX3

  • How Individuals' Cherished Possessions Become Families' Inalienable Wealth

    Carolyn Folkman Curasi, Lisa Leimar Price et al.ARTICLEJournal of Consumer Research2004Cited by: 70References: 8

    This article examines a special category of objects, things that people should not give or sell, but keep from generation to generation within the close confines of a group-inalienable wealth. Previous findings about inalienable wealth are restricted to studies of indigenous cultures by anthropologists. We explore whether and how objects pass from alienable to inalienable status across generations of middle-class North American families. Our rese…

  • The (re-)configuration of production and consumption in empty nest households/families

    Margaret K Hogg, Carolyn Folkman Curasi et al.ARTICLEConsumption Markets & Culture2004Cited by: 15References: 28

    In this paper we examine how the complex relationship between consumption and production evolves in empty nest households as individuals reconstruct their sense of self during periods of major household change and role status transitions. Specifically, we seek to understand the “lived experience” of mothers as they negotiate the role status transition on entering the empty nest stage of family life, and thus to provide glimpses of how women manag…

  • Older Consumers' Disposition of Special Possessions

    Lisa Leimar Price, Linda L Price et al.ARTICLEJournal of Consumer Research2000Cited by: 60References: 50

    This article explores precipitating events, emotions, and decisions associated with older consumers' disposition of special possessions. Findings are based on analyses of semistructured interviews with 80 older consumers, complemented by depth interviews with seven informants. Cherished possessions and their disposition play a significant role in older consumers' reminiscence and life review. Concerns about disposition of special possessions invo…

  • Cherished Possessions

    Open AccessE Arnould, Eric J Arnould et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News1999Cited by: 1

    Tell you what, I go to estate sales all the time. And when I go, every time I go, I realize that I have to do something. I must get rid of what I have. It is so sad [stresses the word sad] and there are these beautiful items that are being sold. And I think of these people; and of how they must have felt. They had all of this, and it meant so much to them. So, every time I go, I think that's not going to happen to me."-Iris (78, married