The Social Life of Things pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載2025
- 人類學
- 物質文化
- 社會學
- 物質文化史
- 文化人類學
- Anthropology
- Appadurai
- 社會史
- 社會學
- 物的使用
- 文化研究
- 日常物品
- 物質文化
- 社會互動
- 技術社會
- 物品生命周期
- 身份建構
- 社會關係
具體描述
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.
著者簡介
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
圖書目錄
Preface
Part I. Toward an anthropology of things:
1. Introduction: commodities and the politics of value Arjun Appadurai
2. The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process Igor Kopytoff
Part II. Exchange, Consumption, and Display:
3. Two kinds of value in the Eastern Solomon Islands William H. Davenport
4. Newcomers to the world of goods: consumption among the Muria Gonds Alfred Gell
Part III. Prestige, Commemoration, and Value:
5. Varna and the emergence of wealth in prehistoric Europe Colin Renfrew
6. Sacred commodities: the circulation of medieval relics Patrick Geary
Part IV. Production Regimes and the Sociology of Demand:
7. Weavers and dealers: the authenticity of an oriental carpet Brian Spooner
8. Qat: changes in the production and consumption of a quasilegal commodity in northeast Africa Lee V. Cassanelli
Part V. Historical Transformations and Commodity Codes:
9. The structure of a cultural crisis: thinking about cloth in France before and after the Revolution William M. Reddy
10. The origins of swadeshi (home industry): cloth and Indian society, 1700–1930 C. A. Bayly
Index.
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讀後感
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 ...
評分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 ...
評分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 ...
評分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 ...
評分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 ...
用戶評價
Appadurai and Kopytoff. The fundamental basis for object biography and social life of things. Commodity exchange. Material culture studies.
评分Brian Spooner這篇寫地毯的文章很不錯，作者對本真性的理解是“去商品化、再獨特化”，其實迴應瞭本雅明的“靈暈”。重點在於物性與value到底是本質論還是建構論。
评分intro部分尤其好！可是每次讀理論就會對本學科産生深深的identity crisis...
评分Appadurai的導言部分寫得很好！
评分可以算作早期的物質文化研究的代錶性文集之一，具有開創價值。尤其是其中Colin Renfrew的一篇，讓我突然意識到，我們當成“新知識”普及的“中西青銅的差異”觀念是錯誤的。絕非中國的青銅是禮器，西方的青銅是裝飾。前者有誤，中國的青銅當是“飲食器、酒水器、樂器、兵器、工具”等等，但是無論是飲食器之類，還是裝飾，皆為“禮器”也！
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