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Title The social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective / edited by Arjun Appadurai
Published Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1986]
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [1986]
©1986
©1986

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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.
Commerce -- Social aspects.
Economic anthropology.
Raw materials.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Appadurai, Arjun, 1949- editor
Ethnohistory Workshop (1983 : University of Pennsylvania)
Ethnohistory Workshop (1984 : University of Pennsylvania)
Symposium on the Relationship between Commodities and Culture (1984 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
LC no. 85019529
ISBN 0521323517
9780521323512
9780521357265