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Appadurai, Arjun (ed.). The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
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Table of contents
Abstract
Reviews
Excerpt
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| Contributors | vii |
| Forward by Nanacy Farriss | ix |
| Preface | xiii |
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| Part 1. Toward an anthropology of things | |
| 1. Introduction: commodities and the politics of value | 3 |
| Arjun Appadurai | |
| 2. The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process | 64 |
| Igor Kopytoff | |
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| Part 2. Exchange, consumption, and display | |
| 3. Two kinds of value in the Eastern Solomon Islands | 95 |
| William H. Davenport | |
| 4. Newcomers to the world of goods: consumption among the Muria Gonds | 110 |
| Alfred Gell | |
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| Part 3. Prestige, Commemoration, and value | |
| 5. Varna and the emergence of wealth in prehistoric Europe | 141 |
| Colin Renfrew | |
| 6. Sacred commodities: the circulation of medieval relics | 169 |
| Patrick Geary | |
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| Part IV. Production regimes and the sociology of demand | |
| 7. Weavers and dealers: the authenticity of an oriental carpet | 195 |
| Brian Spooner | |
| 8. Qat: changes in the production and consumption of a quasilegal commodity in northeast Africa | 236 |
| Lee V. Cassanelli | |
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| Part V. Historical transformations and commodity codes | |
| 9. The structure of cultural crisis: thinking about cloth in France before and after the Revolution | 261 |
| William M. Ready | |
| 10. The origins of swadeshi (home industry): cloth and Indian society, 1700-1930 | 285 |
| C.A. Bayly | |
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| Index | 323 |
