The give-and-take of consumer culture / Jean-Christophe Agnew -- Buying your friends : the pet business and American consumer culture / Katherine C. Grier -- The commodity of self : nineteenth-century human hair jewelry / Helen Sheumaker -- An undesired necessity : the commodification of medical service in the interwar United States / Nancy Tomes -- "Preserving their form and features" : the commodification of coffins in the American understanding of death / Brent W. Tharp -- Healthcare as product : Catholic sisters confront charity and the hospital marketplace, 1865-1925 / Barbra Mann Wall -- "Preachers and peddlers of God" : ex-slaves and the selling of African-American religion in the American South / John M. Giggie -- The politics of ghee adulteration and its public resolutions in Calcutta, c. 1917 / Anne Hardgrove -- Marketing community : state reform of Indian village property and expenditure in colonial Mexico, 1775-1810 / Andrew B. Fisher -- Commodifying Chinese nationalism : MSG and the flavor of patriotic production / Karl Gerth -- Packaging skills : calibrating cheese to the global market / Cristina Grasseni
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