What’s in a price?: An Ethnography of Tribal Art at Auction

Journal of Material Culture

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 25-47

  Geismar, Haidy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

art market; auctions; price; tournament of value; tribal art

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990319614     PISSN: 13591835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/135918350100600102     Document Type: Article

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