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The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Bridging the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, the volume marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural basis of economic life and the sociology of culture.

• Foreword Nancy Farriss
• Preface
• Toward an anthropology of things
• Introduction: commodities and the politics of value
• The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process
• Exchange, Consumption, and Display
• Two kinds of value in the Eastern Solomon Islands
• Newcomers to the world of goods: consumption among the
• Prestige, Commemoration, and Value
• Varna and the emergence of wealth in prehistoric
• Sacred commodities: the circulation of medieval relics
• Production Regimes and the Sociology of Demand
• Weavers and dealers: the authenticity of an oriental carpet
• Qat: changes in the production and consumption of a quasilegal commodity in northeast Africa
• Historical Transformations and Commodity Codes
• The structure of a cultural crisis: thinking about cloth in France before and after the Revolution
• The origins of swadeshi (home industry): cloth and Indian society, 1700-1930
• Index