Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives

by Angelique Haugerud (Editor), Priscilla M. Stone (Editor), Peter D. Little (Editor)

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.

260 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2000