Lives of things

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 226-241

  Cook, Ian ^a   Woodyer, Tara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"The Fetishism of the Commodity and Its Secret"; Affirmative critique enchanted activism; Definite social relations, and relation between things; Important artifacts, as women's sunglasses; Lives of things and staged auction lots, with accompanying captions; Magical Marxism; Material culture of the commodified world, in everyday lives; World of commodities, produced by man

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862685602     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118384497.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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