The social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective / edited by Arjun Appadurai.

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Published: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1986.
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245 0 4 |a The social life of things :  |b commodities in cultural perspective /  |c edited by Arjun Appadurai. 
260 |a Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ;  |a New York :  |b Cambridge University Press,  |c c1986. 
300 |a xiv, 329 p. ;  |c 24 cm. 
500 |a 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. 
504 |a Includes bibliographies and index. 
505 0 0 |t Commodities and the politics of value /  |r Arjun Appadurai --  |t Cultural biography of things : commoditization as process /  |r Igor Kopytoff --  |t Two kinds of value in the Eastern Solomon Islands /  |r William H. Davenport --  |t Newcomers to the world of goods : consumption among the Muria Gonds --  |t Alfred Gell --  |t Varna and the emergence of wealth in prehistoric Europe /  |r Colin Renfrew --  |t Sacred commodities : the circulation of medieval relics /  |r Patrick Geary --  |t Weavers and dealers : the authenticity of an oriental carpet /  |r Brian Spooner --  |t Qat : changes in the production and consumption of a quasilegal commodity in northeast Africa /  |r Lee V. Cassanelli --  |t Structure of a cultural crisis : thinking about cloth in France before and after the Revolution /  |r William M. Reddy --  |t Origins of swadeshi (home industry) : cloth and Indian society, 1700-1930 /  |r C.A. Bayly. 
650 0 |a Commerce  |x Social aspects. 
650 0 |a Economic anthropology. 
650 0 |a Commerce  |x History. 
700 1 |a Appadurai, Arjun,  |d 1949- 
711 2 |a Ethnohistory Workshop  |d (1983 :  |c University of Pennsylvania) 
711 2 |a Ethnohistory Workshop  |d (1984 :  |c University of Pennsylvania) 
711 2 |a Symposium on the Relationship between Commodities and Culture  |d (1984 :  |c Philadelphia, Pa.) 
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