The Social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective / (Record no. 195133)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0521323517 |
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| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 306.3 |
| Item number | APP/S |
| 245 04 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | edited by Arjun Appadurai. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; |
| -- | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | c1986. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiv, 329 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | 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. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Part I. Toward an anthropology of things: 1. Introduction: commodities and the politics of value Arjun Appadurai<br/>2. The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process Igor Kopytoff<br/>Part II. Exchange, Consumption, and Display: 3. Two kinds of value in the Eastern Solomon Islands William H. Davenport<br/>4. Newcomers to the world of goods: consumption among the Muria Gonds Alfred Gell<br/>Part III. Prestige, Commemoration, and Value: 5. Varna and the emergence of wealth in prehistoric Europe Colin Renfrew<br/>6. Sacred commodities: the circulation of medieval relics Patrick Geary<br/>Part IV. Production Regimes and the Sociology of Demand: 7. Weavers and dealers: the authenticity of an oriental carpet Brian Spooner<br/>8. Qat: changes in the production and consumption of a quasilegal commodity in northeast Africa Lee V. Cassanelli<br/>Part V. Historical Transformations and Commodity Codes: 9. The structure of a cultural crisis: thinking about cloth in France before and after the Revolution William M. Reddy<br/>10. The origins of swadeshi (home industry): cloth and Indian society, 1700-1930 C. A. Bayly |
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| Keyword | Commerce |
| General subdivision | Social aspects. |
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| Keyword | Economic anthropology. |
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| Keyword | Commerce |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | General Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession number | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Koha item type |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | 27/04/2018 | 53 | 1898.94 | 306.3 APP/S | 46691 | 02/09/2020 | 02/09/2020 | General Books |