Introduction: Commodities and the politics of value / Arjun Appadurai -- The 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 -- The structure of a cultural crisis : thinking about cloth in France before and after the Revolution / William M. Reddy -- The origins of swadeshi (home industry) : cloth and Indian society, 1700-1930 / C.A. Bayly
Notes
"Three of the papers...were delivered to the Ethnohistory Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania during 1983-84. The others...were delivered at a symposium on the relationship between commodities and culture hosted by the Ethnohistory Program, in Philadelphia, on May 23-5, 1984."--Page xiii
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