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Introduction : Commodities And The Politics Of Value / Arjun Appadurai -- The Cultural Biography Of Things : Commoditization As Process / Igor Kopytoff -- Two Kinds Of Value In The Eastern Solomon...

The Social Life Of Things: Commodities In Cultural Perspective

By Arjun Appadurai, Ethnohistory Workshop (1983, University Of Pennsylvania), Symposium On The Relationship Between Commodities And Culture (1984, Philadelphia, Pa.), Ethnohistory Workshop (1984, University Of Pennsylvania)

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