The Social Life of Things

The Social Life of Things
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 0521357268
ISBN-13 : 9780521357265
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Book Synopsis The Social Life of Things by : Arjun Appadurai

Download or read book The Social Life of Things written by Arjun Appadurai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-01-29 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three of the papers were presented to the Ethnohistory Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania during 1983-84; the others were presented at a Symposium on the Relationship between Commodities and Culture, held May 23-25, 1984, in Philadelphia. Includes bibliographies and index.


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