TY  - GEN
AU  - Appadurai, Arjun Ed.
TI  - Social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective
SN  - 9780521357265
U1  - 360.3 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Islamic architecture
KW  - Economic anthropology
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Commerce--Social aspects
KW  - Raw materials
N1  - Contents
Contributors  vii
Foreword by Nancy Farriss  ix
Preface  xiii
Part I. Toward an anthropology of things
1. Introduction: commodities and the politics of value Arjun Appadurai  3
2. The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process Igor Kopytoff  64
Part II. Exchange, Consumption, and Display
3. Two kinds of value in the Eastern Solomon Islands William H. Davenport  95
4. Newcomers to the world of goods: consumption among the Muria Gonds Alfred Gell  110
Part III. Prestige, Commemoration, and Value
5. Varna and the emergence of wealth in prehistoric Europe Colin Renfrew  141
6. Sacred commodities: the circulation of medieval relics Patrick Geary  169
Part IV. Production Regimes and the Sociology of Demand
7. Weavers and dealers: the authenticity of an oriental carpet Brian Spooner  195
8. Qat: changes in the production and consumption of a quasilegal commodity in northeast Africa Lee V. Cassanelli  236
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  261
10. The origins of swadeshi (home industry): cloth and Indian society, 1700–1930 C. A. Bayly  285
Index  323
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