Grant McCracken

{{short description|Canadian anthropologist and author (born 1951)}}

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|caption = McCracken speaks on Reason TV in 2021

|name = Grant McCracken

|birth_place = Canada

|occupation = Author lecturer

|genres = Culture, commerce, business

|notableworks = Chief Culture Officer, Transformations

|website = {{URL|http://cultureby.com/}}

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Grant David McCracken (born 1951) is a Canadian anthropologist and author, known for his books about culture and commerce.{{cite web|title=Psychology Today Profile|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/experts/grant-mccracken-phd|publisher=Psychology Today|date=February 2005|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20140220115915/http://www.psychologytoday.com/experts/grant-mccracken-phd|archivedate=2014-02-20}}Lee, Kate. [http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4221-4329-2 Culturematic Review]. Publishers Weekly. (March 26, 2012) 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.{{cite book|doi=10.1002/9781118989463.wbeccs095|chapter=Diderot Effect|title=The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies|year=2015|last1=Lorenzen|first1=Janet A.|page=1|isbn=9781118989463}} He lives in Rowayton, Connecticut.Source: Indiana University Press bio, accessed 25/1/2008