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Gifts and Commodities:Exchange and Western Capitalism Since 1700
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Three hundred years ago people made most of what they used, or got it in trade from their neighbours. Now, no one seems to make anything, and we buy what we need from shops. Gifts and Commodities describes the cultural and historical process of these changes and looks at the rise of consumer society in Britain and the United States. It investigates the ways that people think about and relate to objects in twentieth-century culture, at how those relationships have developed, and the social meanings they have for relations with others.Using aspects of anthropology and sociology to describe the importance of shopping and gift-giving in our lives and in western economies, Gifts and Commodities:
* traces the development of shopping and retailing practices, and the emergence of modern notions of objects and the self
* brings together a wealth of information on the history of the retail trade
* examines the reality of the distinctions we draw between the impersonal economic sphere and personal social sphere
* offers a fully interdisciplinary study of the links we forge between ourselves, our social groups and the commodities we buy and give. less
Taylor and Francis; January 2013
ISBN 9781134816651
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Subject categories
- Academic > Business and Commerce > Commerce > Boards of trade. Chambers of commerce.
- Academic > Business and Commerce > Commerce > By region or country
- Academic > Economics > Commerce > Boards of trade. Chambers of commerce.
- Academic > Economics > Commerce > By region or country
- Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural
- Social Science > Sociology
- Business > Industries
- Business > Sales & Selling
- Archaeology
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0203983041
9780203983041
9780415117524
9781134816651
9781134816668

