num_pages: 339
description: The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Bridging the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, the volume marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural basis of economic life and the sociology of culture.
language: English
title: The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective
titlecomplete: The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective
genres: Academic, Cultural Studies, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Material Culture, Art History, Theory, Sociology, History, Anthropology
ratings_count: 342
publisher: Cambridge University Press