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9780415935906

Commodifying Everything: Relationships of the Market

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415935906

  • ISBN10:

    0415935903

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-05-16
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Commodifying Everything is an engaging historical examination of the complex processes of commodification that define contemporary global culture. With essays that span both geography and disciplinary approaches, this unique volume raises conceptual questions through exceptional case studies, weaving together exciting but surprising topics that demonstrate how friendship, death, spirituality, and artisanship all have a price. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Susan Strasser is a professor of history at the University of Delaware and a leading historian of American consumer culture

Table of Contents

I Boundaries of the Market
Introduction
3(8)
SUSAN STRASSER
1 The Give-and-Take of Consumer Culture
11(32)
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE AGNEW
II Love and Money: Intimate Relationships and the Market
2 Buying Your Friends: The Pet Business and American Consumer Culture
43(28)
KATHERINE C. GRIER
3 The Commodity of Self: Nineteenth-Century Human Hair Jewelry
71(26)
HELEN SHEUMAKER
III Goods and Services: Expanding Market Relationships
4 An Undesired Necessity: The Commodification of Medical Service in the Interwar United States
NANCY TOMES
5 "Preserving Their Form and Features": 119 The Commodification of Coffins in the American Understanding of Death
97(46)
BRENT W. THARP
IV God and Mammon: Selling and the Sacred
6 Healthcare as Product: Catholic Sisters Confront Charity and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925
143(26)
BARBRA MANN WALL
7 "Preachers and Peddlers of God": Ex-Slaves and the selling of African-American Religion in the American South
169(22)
JOHN M. GIGGLE
8 The Politics of Ghee Adulteration and Its Public Resolutions in Calcutta, c. 1917
191(24)
ANNE HARDGROVE
V Village and Nation: Community, Identity, and the Market
9 Marketing Community: State Reform of Indian Village Property and Expenditure in Colonial Mexico, 1775-1810
215(20)
ANDREW B. FISHER
10 Commodifying Chinese Nationalism: MSG and the Flavor of Patriotic Production
235(24)
KARL GERTH
11 Packaging Skills: Calibrating Cheese to the Global Market
259(30)
CRISTINA GRASSENI
Contributors 289(4)
Index 293

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