The World of Goods: Towards an Anthropology of Consumption

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A Classic
This is one of the early anthropologischen criticisms of the neoclassical national economy. Many of the ideas, which are explained here, are considered now seriously by the economists, who try, to find ways around them. Douglas, which is discussable that well well-known British Anthropologe their production, lets a certain view think into the way economist - perhaps, because its married man is an economist. This forms it qualifed singularly, around us with an anthropology of consumption, that to provide dismisses economists, not as much as appearance, how much they miss, by not understanding the cultural mass of consumption.


An excellent discussion of consumption and culture.
Written recently improved, in order to look in a concluded way on the samples, with which all people decide to buy things and the connections we cause 1979 and 1996, Douglas and Isherwoods classical breaks by our own love/hate relationship to consumption and to the partial interpretations of history and the gift with these things. The Bejammern of the fact that national economy limited itself, by limiting human taste on a black box phenomenon Douglas (a famous, now withdrawn, Anthropologe) Rips opens the box and the discoveries many convincing arguments for the use of the goods as means of communication in all societies. Additionally they discuss the preceding and present ideas approximately, why people store, or do not use not and make excellent available analyses with reference values between societies in Great Britain, black one and white in US, the Nuer of the Sudans and people Lele Zimbabwes. Gets away with which the reader, a deeper understanding is to make available of, how people use consumption, consciously and unconsciously, for of of information about even the announcements to others to send, and to try, the river of the culture and the information to steer, in order to promote itself and their interests well. The letter, which I have the impression, will hold you for a point, which is however cerebral, mostly from Douglas written, since I am familiar with their kind of other books, believes, is extreme clear and on your toes with novel interpretations of the familiar cultural phenomena.


Accounting for tastes
In this book a famous structural Anthropologe with an economist co-operates, in order to suggest an explanation for one of the large secrets of the national economy: from where "the preferences", which is come? Much of neoclassical national economy stands still on the acceptance, which, as soon as we know the fundamental desires and the taste for a given population, we then understand can, like people rational decisions exceeds, how one acquires it and how one assigns its operational funds. The actual preferences are however a black box. Douglas



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