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The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective

The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective 8.7分

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作者:Arjun Appadurai

出版社:Cambridge University Press

出版日期:1988-01

ISBN:9780521357265

文件格式: pdf

标签: 人类学 物质文化 社会学 物质文化史 Anthropology 文化人类学 Appadurai 社会史

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The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated p...

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目录

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.