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The Bead is constant
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ISBN: 9964303033 Year: 2003 Publisher: Accra : Ghana Universities Press,

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Dress and gender : making and meaning in cultural contexts
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ISBN: 0854967206 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York : Berg,


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The present relevance of the primitive in architecture = Aktualität des Primitiven in der Architektur = Actualité du primitif dans l'architecture
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ISBN: 3905451018 9783905451016 Year: 1992 Volume: 1 1 1 Publisher: Lausanne: Structura mundi,


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Pom pom pom pom musiques et caetera
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ISBN: 2880780225 Year: 1997 Publisher: Neuchâtel Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel


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Musiques migrantes : de l'exil à la consécration.
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ISBN: 2884742271 9782884742276 Year: 2005 Publisher: Gollion Infolio

Les Découvertes : XVe-XVIe : une révolution des mentalités
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ISBN: 2862603139 9782862603131 Year: 1990 Volume: 1 (suppl.) Publisher: Paris Éditions Autrement

La raison du corps : idéologie du corps et représentations de l'environnement chez les Mirana d'Amazonie colombienne
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ISBN: 9042915471 2877238334 9782877238335 9789042915473 Year: 2005 Volume: 9 412 Publisher: Louvain Paris ... Peeters

The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective
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ISBN: 0521323517 9780521357265 0521357268 1107384702 0511251696 0511819587 9780511819582 Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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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.


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L' habillement du Rwanda ancien : typologie et technologie des vêtements, perspectives historique et sociale et catalogue du Musée national du Rwanda
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ISSN: 00654124 ISBN: 9075894538 9789075894530 Year: 2004 Volume: 168 Publisher: Tervuren Butare Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale Musée national du Rwanda

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Cet ouvrage est à la fois étude technologique et historique de l'habillement du Rwanda ancien et catalogue de musée. Il présente et décrit les vêtements-types qui se trouvent dans la collection du Musée National du Rwanda

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