The Social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective / edited by Arjun Appadurai. - Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1986. - xiv, 329 p. ; 24 cm.

Three of the papers were presented to the Ethnohistory Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania during 1983-84; the others were presented at a Symposium on the Relationship between Commodities and Culture, held May 23-25, 1984, in Philadelphia.

Includes bibliographies and index.

0521357268


Commerce--Social aspects.
Economic anthropology.
Commerce--History.
Anthropology.


Economic anthropology --ANTH 133

GN450 / .S63 1986