The social life of things
Commodities in cultural perspective
ed. by Arjun Appadurai

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Author(s)

Arjun Appadurai

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011

Scope

329 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.

ISBN

9780521357265

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The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of circulation, the essays illuminate the ways in which people find value in things and things give value to social relations. By looking at things as if they lead social lives, the authors provide a new way to understand how value is externalized and sought after

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Keywords

design , anthropocene

Stroom project

De Dingen (Things) ; Uncertainty Seminar : Multispecies and Miscommunicatio

Location

Cabinet 11 - 3: Antropoceen

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index ; .first printed in 1986