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Toward a science of man
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ISBN: 9027976090 9783110818918 3110818914 0202011542 9780202011547 9789027976093 Year: 1975 Publisher: The Hague Chicago Mouton Distributed in the USA and Canada by Aldine

The social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective
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ISBN: 0521323517 9780521357265 0521357268 1107384702 0511251696 0511819587 9780511819582 Year: 1986 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge university press, 2017

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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 economics 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.

Cultural identity and global process.
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ISBN: 0803986386 0803986378 1446222195 1283879980 1848609124 0585366608 9781848609129 9781446222195 9780803986381 9781283879989 9780585366609 9780803986374 9780803986381 Year: 1995 Publisher: London Sage

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Examining ideas ranging from world systems theory to postmodernism, Jonathan Friedman investigates the relations between the global and the local, to show how cultural fragmentation and modernist homogenization are equally constitutive trends of global reality.

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#SBIB:39A3 --- #SBIB:316.7C120 --- 39 --- 316.734 --- 316.32 --- 316.42 --- 316.42 Social change. Sociale ontwikkeling. Sociale veranderingen. Modernisering. Evolutie .Sociale revolutie. Modernisme --- Social change. Sociale ontwikkeling. Sociale veranderingen. Modernisering. Evolutie .Sociale revolutie. Modernisme --- 316.32 Globale samenlevingsvormen --- Globale samenlevingsvormen --- 316.734 Verspreiding van cultuur --- Verspreiding van cultuur --- 39 Volkenkunde. Zeden en gebruiken. Culturele antropologie --- Volkenkunde. Zeden en gebruiken. Culturele antropologie --- Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) --- Cultuursociologie: algemene en theoretische werken --- Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Civilization, Modern --- Culture. --- Ethnology --- Group identity. --- Postmodernism --- Geografie --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects. --- Sociale geografie --- Maatschappij. --- Twentieth century --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Group identity --- Philosophy --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Identité collective --- Postmodernisme --- Civilisation --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Aspect social --- Philosophie --- 39 Cultural anthropology. Ethnography. Customs. Manners. Traditions. Way of life --- Cultural anthropology. Ethnography. Customs. Manners. Traditions. Way of life --- Postmodernism - Social aspects --- Civilization, Modern - 20th century --- Ethnology - Philosophy

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