The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780521357265 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 339 str.

Arjun Appadurai

Opis

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.