Commodification : things, agency and identities (The Social Life of Things revisited) /
Wim M.J. van Binsbergen & Peter L. Geschiere (editors).
- Münster : Lit Verlag, 2005.
- 400p. ; 24cm.
Anthro library holds: The social life of things, edited by Arjun Appadurai (CUP, 1986).
Includes bibliography (p.351-378) and indexes.
Materiality in the future of anthropology / Arjun Appadurai; Setting prices, creating money, building markets: Indonesia / Paul Alexander, Jennifer Alexander; Archaeology and commodification / Colin Renfrew; Unsanctioned wealth, or the productivity of debt in northern Cameroon / Janet Roitman; Bicycles, birth certificates, and clysters: Zaire / Nancy Rose Hunt; Colonizing currencies: South Africa / Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff; Coffee, cowries, and currencies: transforming material wealth in northwest Tanzania / Brad Weiss; The moral life of the gift in Ghanaiian Pentecostal churches in the diaspora / Rijk van Dijk; The visibility and invisibility of production: Senegalese craftsmen / Roy Dilley; 'Tournaments of value' in the forest area of southern Cameroon / Peter Geschiere; Value and the cultural transmission of things / Michael Rowlands; Livers and lives: organ extraction narratives on the Rai coast of Papua New Guinea / James Leach; The commodification of King Chulalongkorn: King of Siam / Irene Stengs; 'We are in this for the money': commodification and the sangoma cult of southern Africa / Wim van Binsbergen.