Spear se eee cone "burst eee New Yar NY Hee SA Se ey of Cong Callie Pate Das ‘ecurs 2 Economic nctoplogy Adare eos {Etre 5 Commer" isan" dry say cats Wee asia tte np hn Peel rn th eter Contents Coneibatore Foreword by Noy Faris Preface Part Toward an anthropology of things 1 Introduction: commodities and the pls of value ‘Arjun Appadure 2 The cltural biography of things: commodization as proces, er Kopf Part Hl Exchange, consumption, and display 3 Two kinds of value inthe Eastern Solomon Inds Wilt H,Dacenprt 4 Newcomers othe world of goods: consumption mong the Mura Conds Aird lt Part III Prestige, commemoration, and value 5 Varna and the emergence of wealth in prehitoric Europe Cale Rene 6 Sucre commodities the circulation of medieval ris Pairh Gary page vit 9% uo mati Contents Pare IV Production regimes and the sociology of demand 1 Weavers and dealers: the authenticity ofan oriental ape Brian Spooner Qa changes inthe production and consumpkion of a ‘quaslegalcommodiy in northeast Aisa Tee V. Cason art V_Wistorial wamsformations and commodity codes 9 The sructre ofa eakural criss: thinking about doh in France before and after the Revolution Wiliam M1. Red 10. The origins of swadeshi (home industry) oth and Indian society, 1700-1980, CA Bayh Index 195 236 285 32s Contributors ARJUN APPADURAI is Asaciate Profesor of Anthropology and South Asan Stain atthe University of Pennnyvania, He ithe author Of Warsi and Canc! Under Cle! Rale (1981, ©. A. BAYLY is Fellow of St, Catharine's Cllge, Unversity of Can bridge, and Smuts Render in Commonweakh Studies. He hs pubs the The Lac! Rost of Tndon Poly Allahabad, 1660-1920 (1975) and Ruler, Teunonen and Bears Novh Indian Sot in the gs of Brish Expansion, 1770-1870 (1983). LLte v. CASSANELLE teaches inthe Department of History atthe Universy of Penneleania. He ithe author of he Shaping of Somali Sasay: Reconsrctng he Hitary of Patel People (1982). WILLIAM Mt, DAVENPORT teaches anthropology atthe Universiy ‘of Fennsyvania where he also Carator for Ocenia atthe Universi Siancum,Hehas dome fold sexnreh in Jaen athe Solomon Islands an historical research on pr-European Hawai and has pub. shed extensively onal these areas PATRICK GEARY i Astocate Profesor of History at dhe University ‘of Florida, Hels the autor of Fura Sara Thefts of Rts nth Conta ‘Mite Ages (1878) and Arca in Provence! The Rhone Basin a che awn ofthe Carslingan Ae (198), ‘ALFRED CELL teaches soil anthropology atthe London School of| "Economics and Palit Science: He the author of Metomops of the Cason: Umeda Sec, Language and ital (1873). tooR KoPyToF® of the Department of Anthropology atthe U ‘versity of Penasyvania is coedo (ath Suzanne Met) of Slee) | ‘As: Hisereal and Antvopolpal Pnipeces (1977) and author of Vanes of Wah The Saal Eanamy of Ser Power oreo).+ Conoibere WILLIAM at REDDY is Asitant Profeior of History at Duke Uni Yerstyand is the author of The Ric of Maret Cale The Tene Trade {nd French Sosy, 1730-1900 (1988) ‘COLIN RENFREW i Disney Profesor of Archaeology, University of ‘Cambridge, and Fellow of Se John’ College He i the tutor of | ‘Problens sx European Polos (1975) and Approaches to Sxl Arh slog (1984). RIAN stOONER teaches in the Department of Anthropology a the Uniersiy of Pennsyiana. He's the author of Flog n bem A Rational for Taree Dimensional Ply (198) Foreword “The genalogy of any mulicpinary vohume inlet be complex: ‘Thelmmedate antecedents of tisone ave len: the vison td energy of the editor, Arjun Appadurai have sustained the enterprise from beginning to end. But ies algo a cooperative effort and the synpos- ‘um and workshop that produced the indivi conrbatons are ‘hemselves the product of an ongoing dialogue that snthropologiss fd hitorians atthe Univerty of Pennsylvania began a decade ago ld the aegis ofthe Ethnohistory Program. The orignal sins {or the program came from 2 shared sense thatthe two disciplines ‘nid mut learn from eachother. Jst ow much we had to kes Seam eviden only asthe dialogue progres ‘Exchange of a sort had already started. Socal historians in recent, years have been tarning to anthropology fr theoretical perspectives, 2 hey expanded their meres io inclade peasants, eine minorities the peopl without history ~ the fay and other topes thought ‘oe the tratonal domain of anthropologists, For those who wished ‘0 do hinory from the insde out sr well a from the boom Up, Suhropology offered the necesary dimension of elere the system fof meaning that people invest inthis socal forms. Anthropologist incerestin story slthough ntentrly new as become mor intense Sn of 3 different kind. The pat once viewed at a tore or les “differentiated prelude to the ethnographic present, has inrea ingly come wo represent a rich worehoune of information on so. Cultural orgunzation: empirical gst for anhropology’s concept mill If anthropologists were to tap this sorehouse, they would have No mater the wources and techniques of firs esearch Exchange a thi rudimentary level iva fore of ruta rading, with history seen as merlysourceof facts and anthropology asoutee at theorien ‘The reults can prove disapponting. Unlike mos pes of plunder, historia facts and anthropological model lose much of ‘her value when temoved from their orignal contexts. The Ethno istry Program war founded with the idea that would be profitable for bah pardet to Uy to undersand the cers diipine, to get, «