图书标签: 人类学 物质文化 社会学 物质文化史 文化人类学 Anthropology Appadurai 社会史
发表于2024-12-22
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The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of circulation, the essays illuminate the ways in which people find value in things and things give value to social relations. By looking at things as if they lead social lives, the authors provide a new way to understand how value is externalized and sought after. They discuss a wide range of goods - from oriental carpets to human relics - to reveal both that the underlying logic of everyday economic life is not so far removed from that which explains the circulation of exotica, and that the distinction between contemporary economies and simpler, more distant ones is less obvious than has been thought. As the editor argues in his introduction, beneath the seeming infinitude of human wants, and the apparent multiplicity of material forms, there in fact lie complex, but specific, social and political mechanisms that regulate taste, trade, and desire.
Containing contributions from American and British social anthropologists and historians, the volume bridges the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, and marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural basis of economic life and the sociology of culture. It will appeal to anthropologists, social historians, economists. archaeologists, and historians of art.
Editor
Arjun Appadurai, New School University, New York
Contributors
Nancy Farriss, Arjun Appadurai, Igor Kopytoff, William H. Davenport, Alfred Gell, Colin Renfrew, Patrick Geary, Brian Spooner, Lee V. Cassanelli, William M. Reddy, C. A. Bayly
Appadurai和Kopytoff的文章,如何能和经典的政治经济学对于商品的解释对照起来想,会非常有启发。(商品经济的兴起,如果有一个rupture的话,究竟意味着什么?)
评分真应该早点重视这本书
评分真应该早点重视这本书
评分可以算作早期的物质文化研究的代表性文集之一,具有开创价值。尤其是其中Colin Renfrew的一篇,让我突然意识到,我们当成“新知识”普及的“中西青铜的差异”观念是错误的。绝非中国的青铜是礼器,西方的青铜是装饰。前者有误,中国的青铜当是“饮食器、酒水器、乐器、兵器、工具”等等,但是无论是饮食器之类,还是装饰,皆为“礼器”也!
评分Appadurai和Kopytoff的文章,如何能和经典的政治经济学对于商品的解释对照起来想,会非常有启发。(商品经济的兴起,如果有一个rupture的话,究竟意味着什么?)
Retracting to the Marxian framework of the politics of commodity production and departing from Simmel’s argument that exchange creates value and not the other way around, the edited essays in the Social life of Things shed light on the specific trajectory ...
评分Retracting to the Marxian framework of the politics of commodity production and departing from Simmel’s argument that exchange creates value and not the other way around, the edited essays in the Social life of Things shed light on the specific trajectory ...
评分Retracting to the Marxian framework of the politics of commodity production and departing from Simmel’s argument that exchange creates value and not the other way around, the edited essays in the Social life of Things shed light on the specific trajectory ...
评分Retracting to the Marxian framework of the politics of commodity production and departing from Simmel’s argument that exchange creates value and not the other way around, the edited essays in the Social life of Things shed light on the specific trajectory ...
评分Retracting to the Marxian framework of the politics of commodity production and departing from Simmel’s argument that exchange creates value and not the other way around, the edited essays in the Social life of Things shed light on the specific trajectory ...
The Social Life of Things pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024