The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective

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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.

Author(s): Arjun Appadurai (ed.)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1986

Language: English
Pages: 171