The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective

Appadurai, Arjun (edited by)

ISBN 10: 0521357268 / ISBN 13: 9780521357265

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995

About this Item

Thumbed covers. Marginal marking, notes and underlining in ink and pencil. Occasional dog-eared pages. A good, serviceable working copy. 225 x 155 mm. xiv, 336 pp. First published 1986.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521357268
• ISBN 13: 9780521357265
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • History
  • Politics, Philosophy, Economics

About this title

Synopsis

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.

Book Description

Contributors to this volume examine how "things" are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings. The work strives to reveal the underlying social and political mechanisms that regulate taste, trade and desire and to demonstrate the ways people attach value to objects.