Commodities and Globalization Anthropological Perspectives |
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| Editor:
| Haugerud, Angelique
Stone, Priscilla M.
Little, Peter D. |
| Contribution by:
| Little, Peter D.
Collins, Jane L.
Creamer, Winifred
Dolan, Catherine S.
Plattner, Stuart
Polier, Nicole
Roberts, Bruce D.
Rothman, Mitchell S.
Stanford, Lois
Stone, M. Priscilla
Vargas-Cetina, Gabriela
White, Bob
Ziegenhorn, Randy |
| Series title: | Monographs in Economic Anthropology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8476-9942-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2000 |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $153.00 |
Book Description:
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TodayOs growing fascination with flows of people, commodities, technology, capital, images and ideas across national and other boundaries poses fresh theoretical and methodological challenges to anthropology. Commodities offer a particularly useful window on globalization because they, unlike electronically conveyed capital, transport cultural messages. These ideological or symbolic transfers are of particular interest to economic anthropology. This collection considers how conceptions...
More DescriptionTodayOs growing fascination with flows of people, commodities, technology, capital, images and ideas across national and other boundaries poses fresh theoretical and methodological challenges to anthropology. Commodities offer a particularly useful window on globalization because they, unlike electronically conveyed capital, transport cultural messages. These ideological or symbolic transfers are of particular interest to economic anthropology. This collection considers how conceptions and roles of commodities may change in response to widening spheres of economic interaction and exchange.