The World of Goods

by Mary Douglas and Baron Isherwood

Book Overview

First published in 1979, The World of Goods rapidly established itself as a classic. In this pioneering work, a leading anthropologist and an economist join forces to suggest what market researchers have long suspected and anthropologists have observed firsthand in other cultures--that people use goods as a means of communicating with each other. It is the unique contribution of this fascinating book that it shows us precisely how the insights of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393300226
• ISBN13: 9780393300222
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.