The Social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective / edited by Arjun Appadurai.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1986Description: xiv, 329 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0521323517Subject(s): Commerce -- Social aspects | Economic anthropology | Commerce -- HistoryDDC classification: 306.3 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Central Library, Sikkim University | 306.3 APP/S (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 46691 |
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.
Part I. Toward an anthropology of things: 1. Introduction: commodities and the politics of value Arjun Appadurai
2. The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process Igor Kopytoff
Part II. Exchange, Consumption, and Display: 3. Two kinds of value in the Eastern Solomon Islands William H. Davenport
4. Newcomers to the world of goods: consumption among the Muria Gonds Alfred Gell
Part III. Prestige, Commemoration, and Value: 5. Varna and the emergence of wealth in prehistoric Europe Colin Renfrew
6. Sacred commodities: the circulation of medieval relics Patrick Geary
Part IV. Production Regimes and the Sociology of Demand: 7. Weavers and dealers: the authenticity of an oriental carpet Brian Spooner
8. Qat: changes in the production and consumption of a quasilegal commodity in northeast Africa Lee V. Cassanelli
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
10. The origins of swadeshi (home industry): cloth and Indian society, 1700-1930 C. A. Bayly
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