The Social Life of Things
By (author): "Arjun Appadurai"
Publish Date:
January 1st 1986
ISBN0521357268
ISBN139780521357265
AsinThe Social Life of Things
Original titleThe Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Social & Cultural Anthropology)
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.