
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective
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Summary
Table of Contents
Foreword Nancy Farriss | |
Preface | |
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 | |
Index. |
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