000			01628 a2200157 4500
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082			_a360.3 _bAPP
100			_aAppadurai, Arjun Ed.
245			_aSocial life of things : commodities in cultural perspective
260			_aNew York _bCambridge University Press _c2017
300			_axiv,329p.
505			_aContents 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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650			_aIslamic architecture _aEconomic anthropology _aCommerce _aCommerce--Social aspects _aRaw materials