Commodities and Globalization - Anthropological Perspectives

TodayOs growing fascination with flows of people, commodities, technology, capital, images and ideas across national and other boundaries poses fresh theoretical and methodological challenges to anthropology. Commodities offer a particularly useful window on globalization because they, unlike electronically conveyed capital, transport cultural messages. These ideological or symbolic transfers are of particular interest to economic anthropology. This collection considers how conceptions and roles of commodities may change in response to widening spheres of economic interaction and exchange.

Info autore

Angelique Haugerud is associate professor of anthropology at Rutgers University in New Bruswick, New Jersey. M. Priscilla Stone is director of international studies, coordinator of African studies, and an adjunct associate professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. Peter D. Little is professor of anthropology at the University of Kentucky.

Riassunto

A growing fascination with flows of people and commodities poses fresh theoretical and methodical challenges to anthropology. This collection of essays considers how conceptions and roles of commodities may change in response to widening spheres of economic interaction and exchange.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Society for Economic Anthropology (U S )
• Con la collaborazione di: Angelique Haugerud (Editore), Peter D Little (Editore), Peter D. Little (Editore), Little Peter D. (Editore), Margaret Priscilla Stone (Editore), Priscilla M Stone (Editore), Priscilla M. Stone (Editore), Stone Priscilla M. (Editore)
• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 05.07.2000
• EAN: 9780847699421
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-9942-1
• Dimensioni: 157 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Peso: 449 g
• Serie: Society for Economic Anthropol; Monographs in Economic Anthropology Series; Monographs in Economic Anthropology Series; Society for Economic Anthropol; Monographs in Economic Anthrop
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology