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Commodities and Globalization
Anthropological Perspectives
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2000
Summary
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. The essays in this volume are ordered under two themes. Those included in the first section, OCommodities in a Globalizing Marketplace,O address historically and culturally defined variations in meanings and practices associated with commodities in globalizing markets. In Part Two, OThe Circulation and Revaluation of CommoditiesO, contributors analyze how commodity producersO experiences are informed by colonial and post-colonial history, state directives in the marketplace, and locations in dependent or marginalized regions. The chapters all focus on the production process as it responds to, is distorted by and increasingly is controlled by the determination of the value of those commodities outside a OlocalityO.
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Copyright year
2000
ISBN-Print
978-0-8476-9942-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7425-7418-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
2
Product type
Edited Book
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1 Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives M Priscilla Stone, Angelique Haugerud, and Peter D. Little No access Pages 1 - 30
2 Soukouss or Sell-Out?: Congolese Popular Dance Music as Cultural Commodity Bob White No access
3 What It Means to Be Restructured: Nontraditional Commodities and Structural Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa Peter D. Little and Catherine S. Dolan No access
4 The Globalization of Agricultural Commodity Systems: Examining Peasant Resistance to International Agribusiness Lois Stanford No access
5 Tracing Social Relations in Commodity Chains: The Case of Grapes in Brazil Jane L. Collins No access
6 Profit Markets and Art Markets Stuart Plattner No access
7 The Commodification of Hybrid Corn: What Farmers Know Randy Ziegenhorn No access
8 The Impact of Colonial Contact on the Production and Distribution of Glaze-Paint Decorated Ceramics Winifred Creamer No access
9 The Commoditization of Goods and the Rise of the Statein Ancient Mesopotamia Mitchell S. Rothman No access
10 Always Cheaply Pleasant: Beer as a Commodity in a Rural Kenyan Society Bruce D. Roberts No access
11 Commoditization, Cash, and Kinship in Postcolonial Papua New Guinea Nicole Polier No access
12 From Handicraft to Monocrop: The Production of Pecorino Cheese in Highland Sardinia Gabriela Vargas-Cetina No access
