In this path-breaking book, economists and scholars from other disciplines use standard economic tools to investigate the formation and evolution of normative preferences. The collection's premise is that an adequate understanding of how an economy and society are organized and …
4e de couv. : Representing a new wave of thinking about material culture studies-a topic long overdue for reevaluation-the essays in this volume take a fresh look at the relationship between material culture and exchange theory and illuminate the changing patterns of cultural fl…
Collection of anthropological essays on contemporary material culture; introductory essay by Myers discusses exchange theory - Weiner's critique via the concept of the inaliable object, value and meaning, gift and commodity opposition; consumption, production and alienation, obj…
