The Social Life of Things pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025
Editor
Arjun Appadurai, New School University, New York
Contributors
Nancy Farriss, Arjun Appadurai, Igor Kopytoff, William H. Davenport, Alfred Gell, Colin Renfrew, Patrick Geary, Brian Spooner, Lee V. Cassanelli, William M. Reddy, C. A. Bayly
- 人类学
- 物质文化
- 社会学
- 物质文化史
- 文化人类学
- Anthropology
- Appadurai
- 社会史
The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of circulation, the essays illuminate the ways in which people find value in things and things give value to social relations. By looking at things as if they lead social lives, the authors provide a new way to understand how value is externalized and sought after. They discuss a wide range of goods - from oriental carpets to human relics - to reveal both that the underlying logic of everyday economic life is not so far removed from that which explains the circulation of exotica, and that the distinction between contemporary economies and simpler, more distant ones is less obvious than has been thought. As the editor argues in his introduction, beneath the seeming infinitude of human wants, and the apparent multiplicity of material forms, there in fact lie complex, but specific, social and political mechanisms that regulate taste, trade, and desire.
Containing contributions from American and British social anthropologists and historians, the volume bridges the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, and marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural basis of economic life and the sociology of culture. It will appeal to anthropologists, social historians, economists. archaeologists, and historians of art.
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读后感
Retracting to the Marxian framework of the politics of commodity production and departing from Simmel’s argument that exchange creates value and not the other way around, the edited essays in the Social life of Things shed light on the specific trajectory ...
评分Retracting to the Marxian framework of the politics of commodity production and departing from Simmel’s argument that exchange creates value and not the other way around, the edited essays in the Social life of Things shed light on the specific trajectory ...
评分Retracting to the Marxian framework of the politics of commodity production and departing from Simmel’s argument that exchange creates value and not the other way around, the edited essays in the Social life of Things shed light on the specific trajectory ...
评分Retracting to the Marxian framework of the politics of commodity production and departing from Simmel’s argument that exchange creates value and not the other way around, the edited essays in the Social life of Things shed light on the specific trajectory ...
评分Retracting to the Marxian framework of the politics of commodity production and departing from Simmel’s argument that exchange creates value and not the other way around, the edited essays in the Social life of Things shed light on the specific trajectory ...
用户评价
“Following Habermas, we are used to thinking of crises of legitimacy in modern Western society as the product of a breakdown in the discourse regarding duties and obligations linking state and society.” @RUC
评分上学期人类学原著选读课，老师深情款款推荐偶对这本。拖到开学才把读书笔记糊弄了交掉=。= 这学期老板的商业人类学，这本书又赫然在列了。。。
评分Appadurai and Kopytoff. The fundamental basis for object biography and social life of things. Commodity exchange. Material culture studies.
评分反复读了前两章，讨论了价值的政治、商品化（一般化）和文化之于社会的作用，两章对照着读，能够更好地理解Appadurai所说的"路径与偏移"。Appadurai几十页的intro列举诸多案例，有些真让人一头雾水，Kopytoff则写得精妙而工整。国内有几篇介绍的文章，这么有意思又重要的书为什么没有中译本？
评分Brian Spooner这篇写地毯的文章很不错，作者对本真性的理解是“去商品化、再独特化”，其实回应了本雅明的“灵晕”。重点在于物性与value到底是本质论还是建构论。
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