Title & Author:

The social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective / edited by Arjun Appadurai.

Edition:

9th print.

Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011, ©1986.

Description:

xiv, 329 pages : map ; 23 cm

Notes:
Three of the papers were presented to the Ethnohistory Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania during 1983-84; the others were presented at a symposium on the relationship between commodities and culture, held May 23-25, 1984, in Philadelphia.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Gell -- Varna and the emergence of wealth in prehistoric Europe / Colin Renfrew -- Sacred commodities : the circulation of medieval relics / Patrick Geary -- Weavers and dealers : the authenticity of an oriental carpet / Brian Spooner -- Qat : changes in the production and consumption of a quasilegal commodity in northeast Africa / Lee V. Cassanelli -- Structure of a cultural crisis : thinking about cloth in France before and after the Revolution / William M. Reddy -- Origins of swadeshi (home industry) : cloth and Indian society, 1700-1930 / C.A. Bayly.

ISBN:

0521357268 (pbk.)
9780521357265 (pbk.)
0521323517
9780521323512

Subject:

Commerce Social aspects.
Commerce History.
Economic anthropology.
Commerce Aspect social.
Commerce Histoire.
Anthropologie économique.
Commerce.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Appadurai, Arjun, 1949-
Ethnohistory Workshop (1983 : University of Pennsylvania)
Ethnohistory Workshop (1984 : University of Pennsylvania)
Symposium on the Relationship between Commodities and Culture (1984 : Philadelphia, Pa.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282462
Call No.: BIB 220049
Status: Available