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The Social Life of Things
Commodities in Cultural Perspective
Contributors to this volume examine how "things" are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings. The work strives to reveal the underlying social and political mechanisms that regulate taste, trade and desire and to demonstrate the ways people attach value to objects.
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
Through Pierre Bourdieu's work in Kabylia (Algeria), he develops a theory on symbolic power.
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