The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective

In general, this is a good and worthy book, if a bit on the older side of current research into commodity culture. But as a foundational reference point, it should probably be on the reading list of anyone serious about the history of commodities and social history. The only fault I really find is that the supporting essays are quite random in nature. There is an effort to group the essays into five themes, and the introductory essay (one of the cornerstones of the book) tries to define those themes, but with only two essays to work from, and often drawing on wide-ranging areas and times, it's hard to get more than a sampler of ideas from here, and thus harder to really attempt to generalise methods that could apply to other cultures. Still - a worthwhile text.

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everything great

An interesting book, well written, interesting cover. Would read again.