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Title Cultures of commodity branding / Andrew Bevan, David Wengrow, editors
Published Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations
Series Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
Contents Introduction : commodity branding in archaeological and anthropological perspectives / David Wengrow -- Making and marking relationships : Bronze Age brandings and Mediterranean commodities / Andrew Bevan -- The work of an Istanbulite imitasyoncu / Magdalena Crăciun -- The attribution of authenticity to "real" and "fake" branded commodities in Brazil and China / Rosana Pinheiro-Machado -- The real one : western brands and competing notions of authenticity in socialist Hungary / Ferenc Hammer -- Royal branding and the techniques of the body, the self, and power in west Cameroon / Jean-Pierre Warnier -- Commodities, brands, and village economies in the classic Maya lowlands / Jason Yaeger -- Lincoln Green and real Dutch Java prints : cloth selvedges as brands in international trade / Gracia Clark -- Of marks, prints, pots and becherovka : freemasons branding in early modern Europe? / Marcos Martinón-Torres -- The second-hand brand : liquid assets and borrowed goods / Alison J. Clarke
Summary The contributions in this volume document, both in past social contexts and recent ones, the need to understand branded commodities as part of a broader continuum with techniques of gift-giving, ritual, and sacrifice
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Material culture -- History
Manufactures -- History
Marks of origin -- History
Trademarks -- History
Branding (Marketing) -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Branding (Marketing)
Manufactures
Marks of origin
Material culture
Trademarks
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bevan, Andrew, 1974-
Wengrow, D
LC no. 2010013286
ISBN 1598747029
9781598747027
1598745417
9781598745412