Research paper
Animals, archetypes, and advertising (A3): the theory and the practice of customer brand symbolism
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- Title
- Animals, archetypes, and advertising (A3): the theory and the practice of customer brand symbolism
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- Auckland University of Technology
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- Description
This study provides a theoretical grounding from social anthropology and psychoanalysis into the use of animal symbolism in marketing communications. The study analyses the adoption of animal symbols in brand communications, and considers these as either implicitly anthropomorphic (totemic) or explicitly anthropomorphic (fetishist). Contemporary advertising messages, as they become more visual, indirect, and implicit in their content (Phillips & McQuarrie, 2002), continue to employ animal sym...
- Format
- Research paper
- Research format
- Journal article
- Date created
- 2013
- Creator
- Lloyd, S / Woodside, AG
- URL
- https://hdl.handle.net/10292/6198
- Related subjects
- Branding / Marketing communications / Animal symbols
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