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The social life of things
The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process
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Author(s):
Igor Kopytoff
Editor(s):
Arjun Appadurai
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2009
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Cambridge University Press
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10.1017/CBO9780511819582.004
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Book chapters
pp. ix
Foreword
pp. xiii
Preface
pp. 3
Introduction: commodities and the politics of value
pp. 64
The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process
pp. 95
Two kinds of value in the Eastern Solomon Islands
pp. 110
Newcomers to the world of goods: consumption among the Muria Gonds
pp. 141
Varna and the emergence of wealth in prehistoric Europe
pp. 169
Sacred commodities: the circulation of medieval relics
pp. 195
Weavers and dealers: the authenticity of an oriental carpet
pp. 236
Qat: changes in the production and consumption of a quasilegal commodity in northeast Africa
pp. 261
The structure of a cultural crisis: thinking about cloth in France before and after the Revolution
pp. 285
The origins of swadeshi (home industry): cloth and Indian society, 1700–1930
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