The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture

By Fred R. Myers

Book Overview

Representing a new wave of thinking about material culture studies-a topic long overdue for reevaluation-the essays in this volume take a fresh look at the relationship between material culture and exchange theory and illuminate the changing patterns of cultural flow in an increasingly global economy and the cultural differences registered in regimes of value.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930618069
• ISBN13: 9781930618060
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Sar Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"