Of cabbages and kin the value of an analytic distinction between gifts and commodities

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 137-151

  Goddard, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Commodity fetishism ; Intersubjectivity ; Objectification ; Praxis; alienation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034341842     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X0002000203     Document Type: Article

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