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Book SynopsisA growing fascination with flows of people and commodities poses fresh theoretical and methodical challenges to anthropology. This collection of essays considers how conceptions and roles of commodities may change in response to widening spheres of economic interaction and exchange.
Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives Part 3 Commodities in a Globalizing Marketplace Chapter 4 Soukouss or Sell-out?: Congolese Popular Dance Music as Cultural Commodity Chapter 5 What It Means to Be Restructured: Nontraditional Commodities and Structural Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa Chapter 6 The Globalization of Agricultural Commodity Systems: Examining Peasant Resistance to International Agribusiness Chapter 7 Tracing Social Relations in Commodity Chains: The Case of Grapes in Brazil Part 8 The Circulation and Revaluation of Commodities Chapter 9 Profit Markets and Art Markets Chapter 10 The Commodification of Hybrid Corn: What Farmers Know Chapter 11 The Impact of Colonial Contact on the Production and Distribution of Glaze-Paint Decorated Ceramics Chapter 12 The Commoditization of Goods and the Rise of the State in Ancient Mesopotamia Chapter 13 Always Cheaply Pleasant: Beer as a Commodity in a Rural Kenyan Society Chapter 14 Commoditization, Cash, and Kinship in Postcolonial Papua New Guinea Chapter 15 From Handicraft to Monocrop: The Production of Pecorino Cheese in Highland Sardinia Chapter 16 Index
