Commodities and the politics of value / Arjun Appadurai Cultural biography of things : commoditization as process / Igor Kopytoff Two kinds of value in the Eastern Solomon Islands / William H. Davenport Newcomers to the world of goods : consumption among the Muria Gonds / Alfred…
Indhold; The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Bridging the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, the volume marks a major step in our understandi…
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 setting…