Gifts and commodities [electronic resource] : exchange and western capitalism since 1700 / James G. Carrier.
Series: Material culturesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.Description: xvi, 240 pISBN:- 9780203983041
- United States -- Commerce -- Social aspects -- History
- Great Britain -- Commerce -- Social aspects -- History
- Shopping -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- Shopping -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History
- Gifts -- United States -- History
- Gifts -- Great Britain -- History
- Materialism -- United States -- History
- Materialism -- Great Britain -- History
- Also available in print edition.
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-230) and index.
1. Gifts and commodities, people and things -- 2. Changing production relations -- 3. Changing circulation relations : the emergence of the market -- 4. Changing circulation relations : institutional alienation -- 5. The work of appropriation -- 6. Presenting commodities in catalogues -- 7. The ideology of the gift -- 8. Christmas and the ceremony of the gift.
Also available in print edition.
Electronic reproduction. [London, Eng. : Taylor and Francis, 2012]. PDF file created from digital scan of print book.