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 understanding of the cultural basis of economic life and the sociology of culture.
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Contributors to this volume examine how "things" are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings. The work strives to reveal the underlying social and political mechanisms that regulate taste, trade and desire and to demonstrate the ways people attach value to objects. -- Book Description
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New York, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, United States, Arjun Appadurai, Igor Kopytoff, Middle East, Colin Renfrew, French Somaliland, Patrick Geary, Santa Catalina, Alfred Gell, Clarendon Press, Dhol Saukar, Eastern Solomon Islands, Ram Saukar, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Abdullahi Elmi, Academic Press, Chapel Hill, Near East, New Guinea, Soviet Turkmenistan, University of California Press New!
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ghotul boys, qat use, qat trade, qat consumption, rich gravegoods, qat production, commodity candidacy, consumption ethos, primitive valuables, commodity phase, exchange spheres, kula valuables, commodity sphere, commodity contexts, carpet production, commodity state, trading canoe, funeral observances, prestige objects, aesthetic skills, collective style Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, United States, Arjun Appadurai, Igor Kopytoff, Middle East, Colin Renfrew, French Somaliland, Patrick Geary, Santa Catalina, Alfred Gell, Clarendon Press, Dhol Saukar, Eastern Solomon Islands, Ram Saukar, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Abdullahi Elmi, Academic Press, Chapel Hill, Near East, New Guinea, Soviet Turkmenistan, University of California Press New!
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- Symbolic and Structural Archaeology (New Directions in Archaeology) by Ian Hodder on page 163
- Meaning and Order in Moroccan Society: Three Essays in Cultural Analysis by Clifford Geertz on page 60
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