00000cam a22000004a 4500 UP-1685675941122032121 Buklod 20230916132827.0 a r |||| u| ta 230803t19881986enkb b 0|1 0|eng c 0521357268 (paperback) 9780521357265 (Buklod)UP-99796217609133617 BC-73580 Gift- Dr. Yeoh Seng Guan DLC BAG rda eng GN 450 S63 1988 The social life of things commodities in cultural perspective edited by Arjun Appadurai. First paperback edition. Cambridge, [England] Cambridge University Press 1988. [1986] xiv, 329 pages map 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier 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. 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. Commerce Social aspects. Economic anthropology. Commerce History. Appadurai, Arjun 1949- editor. Ethnohistory Workshop 1983 University of Pennsylvania. Ethnohistory Workshop 1984 University of Pennsylvania. Symposium on the Relationship between Commodities and Culture Philadelphia, Pa. 1984. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN GN 450 S63 1988 Book