The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective
A foundational volume exploring how commodities gain social meaning and circulate through cultural and economic systems across varied contexts.
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This collection examines the social dimensions of commodities and material culture.
Contributors analyze how objects move through different regimes of value and exchange.
The volume draws on case studies from diverse historical and geographic contexts.
Essays address themes of consumption, exchange, and the cultural biography of things.
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