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The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective
Arjun Appadurai
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Frontmatter
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Contributors (page vii)
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Foreword by Nancy Farriss (page ix)
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Preface (page xiii)
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Part I Toward an anthropology of things
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1 Introduction: commodities and the politics of value (Arjun Appadurai, page 3)
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2 The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process (Igor Kopytoff, page 64)
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Part II Exchange, consumption, and display
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3 Two kinds of value in the Eastern Solomon Islands (William H. Davenport, page 95)
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4 Newcomers to the world of goods: consumption among the Muria Gonds (Alfred Gell, page 110)
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Part III Prestige, commemoration, and value
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5 Varna and the emergence of wealth in prehistoric Europe (Colin Renfrew, page 141)
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6 Sacred commodities: the circulation of medieval relics (Patrick Geary, page 169)
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Part IV Production regimes and the sociology of demand
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7 Weavers and dealers: the authenticity of an oriental carpet (Brian Spooner, page 195)
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8 Qat: changes in the production and consumption of a quasilegal commodity in northeast Africa (Lee V. Cassanelli, page 236)
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Part V Historical transformations and commodity codes
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9 The structure of a cultural crisis: thinking about cloth in France before and after the Revolution (William M. Reddy, page 261)
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10 The origins of swadeshi (home industry): cloth and Indian society, 1700-1930 (C. A. Bayly, page 285)
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Index (page 323)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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CANTH | 12.1 (1987): 86-88 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/23817364 |
ANTPS | 84.1/3 (1989): 245-247 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/40461693 |
CulA | 3.4 (Nov. 1988): 488-513 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/656490 |
AHSS | 44.5 (Sep.-Oct. 1989): 1149-1151 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/27582622 |
CS | 17.2 (Mar. 1988): 223-224 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2070604 |
JSocH | 23.1 (Autumn 1989): 187-190 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3787575 |
MAN | 23.2 (June 1988): 408-410 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2802852 |
BTLV | 143.1 (1987): 160-161 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/27863811 |
JSocH | 24.1 (Autumn 1990): 153-157 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3787636 |
VLC | 35.1 (2007): 385-395 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/40347143 |
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Published: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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