Description |
400 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Commodification : things, agency, and identities : introduction / Wim van Binsbergen -- Materiality in the future of anthropology / Arjun Appadurai -- Setting prices, creating money, building markets : notes on the politics of value in Jepara, Indonesia / Paul Alexander & Jennifer Alexander -- Archaeology and commodification : the role of things in societal transformation / Colin Renfrew -- Unsanctioned wealth, or the productivity of debt in northern Cameroon / Janet Roitman -- Bicycles, birth certificates, and clysters : colonial objects as reproductive debris in Mobutu's Zaire / Nancy Rose Hunt -- Colonizing currencies : beasts, banknotes, and the colour of money in South Africa / Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff -- Coffee, cowries, and currencies : transforming material wealth in northwest Tanzania / Brad Weiss -- The moral life of the gift in Ghanaian Pentecostal churches in the diaspora : questions of (in-)dividuality and (in-)alienability in transcultural reciprocal relations / Rijk van Dijk -- The visibility and invisibility of production : in different social contexts among Senegalese craftsmen / Roy Dilley -- 'Tournaments of value' in the forest area of southern Cameroon : 'multiple self-realization' versus colonial coercion during the rubber boom (1900-1913) / Peter Geschiere -- Value and the cultural transmission of things / Michael Rowlands -- Livers and lives : organ extraction narratives on the Rai coast of Papua New Guinea / James Leach -- The commodification of King Chulalongkorn : his portraits, their cultural biographies, and the enduring aura of a Great King of Siam / Irene Stengs -- 'We are in this for the money' : commodification and the sangoma cult of Southern Africa / Wim van Binsbergen |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 351-378 |
Notes |
The social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective / edited by Arjun Appadurai, published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1986 |
Subject |
Commerce -- History.
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Commerce -- Social aspects.
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Economic anthropology.
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Author |
Binsbergen, Wim M. J. van.
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Geschiere, Peter.
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Commodification and identities (1999 : Amsterdam)
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ISBN |
3825888045 |
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9783825888046 |
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