The social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective / edited by Arjun Appadurai.
Contributor(s): Appadurai, Arjun.
Material type: BookPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1986Description: xiv, 329 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0521357268.Subject(s): Commerce -- Social aspects | Economic anthropology | Commerce -- HistoryDDC classification: 306.3Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 306.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00054483 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword Nancy Farriss
- Preface
- Part I Toward an anthropology of things
- 1 Introduction: commodities and the politics of value
- 2 The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process
- Part II Exchange, Consumption, and Display
- 3 Two kinds of value in the Eastern Solomon Islands
- 4 Newcomers to the world of goods: consumption among the
- Part III Prestige, Commemoration, and Value
- 5 Varna and the emergence of wealth in prehistoric
- 6 Sacred commodities: the circulation of medieval relics
- Part IV Production Regimes and the Sociology of Demand
- 7 Weavers and dealers: the authenticity of an oriental carpet
- 8 Qat: changes in the production and consumption of a quasilegal commodity in northeast Africa
- Part V Historical Transformations and Commodity Codes
- 9 The structure of a cultural crisis: thinking about cloth in France before and after the Revolution
- 10 The origins of swadeshi (home industry): cloth and Indian society, 1700-1930
- Index