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The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective

Arjun Appadurai
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Contributors (page vii)
  • Foreword by Nancy Farriss (page ix)
  • Preface (page xiii)
  • Part I Toward an anthropology of things
    • 1 Introduction: commodities and the politics of value (Arjun Appadurai, page 3)
    • 2 The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process (Igor Kopytoff, page 64)
  • Part II Exchange, consumption, and display
    • 3 Two kinds of value in the Eastern Solomon Islands (William H. Davenport, page 95)
    • 4 Newcomers to the world of goods: consumption among the Muria Gonds (Alfred Gell, page 110)
  • Part III Prestige, commemoration, and value
    • 5 Varna and the emergence of wealth in prehistoric Europe (Colin Renfrew, page 141)
    • 6 Sacred commodities: the circulation of medieval relics (Patrick Geary, page 169)
  • Part IV Production regimes and the sociology of demand
    • 7 Weavers and dealers: the authenticity of an oriental carpet (Brian Spooner, page 195)
    • 8 Qat: changes in the production and consumption of a quasilegal commodity in northeast Africa (Lee V. Cassanelli, page 236)
  • 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, page 261)
    • 10 The origins of swadeshi (home industry): cloth and Indian society, 1700-1930 (C. A. Bayly, page 285)
  • Index (page 323)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
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
Citable Link
Published: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780521323512 (hardcover)
  • 9780511251696 (ebook)
  • 9780521357265 (paper)
Subject
  • Anthropology
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