The World of Goods

ISBN-13: 9780367679828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 192 str.

Mary Douglas; Baron Isherwood; Richard Wilk

Opis

A radical rethinking of consumerism, inequality and social capital, The World of Goods is a classic of economic anthropology whose insights remain compelling and urgent. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Richard Wilk.

Spis treści

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Richard Wilk  Introduction  Part 1: Goods as an Information System  1. Why People Want Goods  2. Why They Save  3. The Uses of Goods  4. Exclusion, Intrusion  5. The Technology of Consumption  6. Consumption Periodicities  Part 2: Implications for social policy  7. Separate Economic Spheres in Ethnography  8. International Comparisons  9. Consumption Classes  10. Control of Value  Index