The Social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective / edited by Arjun Appadurai.
Contributor(s): Appadurai, Arjun | Ethnohistory Workshop (1983 : University of Pennsylvania) | Ethnohistory Workshop (1984 : University of Pennsylvania) | Symposium on the Relationship Between Commodities and Culture (1984 : Philadelphia, Pa.).
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TextPublisher: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1986Edition: 1st pbk. ed.Description: xiv, 329 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0521323517; 9780521323512; 0521357268 (pbk.); 9780521357265 (pbk.).Subject(s): Commerce -- Social aspects | Economic anthropology | Commerce -- History | Antropología económica | Comercio -- Historia | Commerce -- Aspect social | Anthropologie économique | Commerce -- Histoire | Commerce -- Aspect social | Anthropologie économique | Commerce -- Histoire | Goederenruil | Antropologische aspecten | Economische antropologie | Commodities - Anthropological perspectives | Commerce | Commerce -- Social aspects | Economic anthropologyGenre/Form: HistoryDDC classification: 306/.3 Online resources: Table of contents | Publisher description 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.