Description |
xiv, 329 pages. ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Commodities and the politics of value / Arjun Appadurai -- Cultural biography of things : commoditization as process / Igor Kopytoff -- Two kinds of value in the Eastern Solomon Islands / William H. Davenport -- Newcomers to the world of goods : consumption among the Muria Gonds -- Alfred Gell -- Varna and the emergence of wealth in prehistoric Europe / Colin Renfrew -- Sacred commodities : the circulation of medieval relics / Patrick Geary -- Weavers and dealers : the authenticity of an oriental carpet / Brian Spooner -- Qat : changes in the production and consumption of a quasilegal commodity in northeast Africa / Lee V. Cassanelli -- Structure of a cultural crisis : thinking about cloth in France before and after the Revolution / William M. Reddy -- Origins of swadeshi (home industry) : cloth and Indian society, 1700-1930 / C.A. Bayly |
Analysis |
Commodities - Anthropological perspectives |
Notes |
Three of the papers were presented to the Ethnohistory Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania during 1983-84; the others were presented at a Symposium on the Relationship between Commodities and Culture, held May 23-25, 1984, in Philadelphia |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Event |
Three of the papers were presented to the Ethnohistory Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania during 1983-84; the others were presented at a Symposium on the Relationship between Commodities and Culture, held May 23-25, 1984, in Philadelphia |
Subject |
Commerce -- History.
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Commerce -- Social aspects.
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Economic anthropology.
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Raw materials.
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
Appadurai, Arjun, 1949- editor
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Ethnohistory Workshop (1983 : University of Pennsylvania)
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Ethnohistory Workshop (1984 : University of Pennsylvania)
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Symposium on the Relationship between Commodities and Culture (1984 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
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LC no. |
85019529 |
ISBN |
0521323517 |
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9780521323512 |
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9780521357265 |
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