Social Life of Things Commodities in Cultural Perspective

Name: Social Life of Things Commodities in Cultural Perspective
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ISBN: 9780521357265

ISBN-10: 0521357268

ISBN-13: 9780521357265

Edition: 1988

Authors: Arjun Appadurai

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The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Bridging the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, the volume marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural basis of economic life and the sociology of culture.

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/29/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 339
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.90" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Foreword Nancy Farriss


Preface



Toward an anthropology of things



Introduction: commodities and the politics of value




The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process




Exchange, Consumption, and Display



Two kinds of value in the Eastern Solomon Islands




Newcomers to the world of goods: consumption among the




Prestige, Commemoration, and Value



Varna and the emergence of wealth in prehistoric




Sacred commodities: the circulation of medieval relics




Production Regimes and the Sociology of Demand



Weavers and dealers: the authenticity of an oriental carpet




Qat: changes in the production and consumption of a quasilegal commodity in northeast Africa




Historical Transformations and Commodity Codes



The structure of a cultural crisis: thinking about cloth in France before and after the Revolution




The origins of swadeshi (home industry): cloth and Indian society, 1700-1930



Index