The Empire of Things
Subtitle: Regimes of Value and Material Culture (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)
Publisher: School of American Research Press
Published: November 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781930618060
Subjects: Sociology; Social Science; General; Archaeology / Anthropology; Values; Social aspects; Anthropology - Cultural; Congresses; Group identity; Material culture
First sentence: The conditions of transnationalism under which most people in the world now live have created new and often contradictory cultural and economic values and meanings in objectsthat is, in material cultureas those objects travel in an accelerated fashion through local, national, and international markets and other regimes of value production.