Sociology, Volume 35Clarendon Press, 2001 - Sociology |
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... things come to embody meaning ? In much anthropological and sociological writings , things have mainly been considered in two ways : either as commodities or as gifts . Correspondingly , people's relationships to things and to other ...
... things come to embody meaning ? In much anthropological and sociological writings , things have mainly been considered in two ways : either as commodities or as gifts . Correspondingly , people's relationships to things and to other ...
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... things may embody different kinds of personal meaning , varying between attachment and aggression . In this paper , I will focus on things as depositories of social and cultural meaning . Things are a way to define who we are to ...
... things may embody different kinds of personal meaning , varying between attachment and aggression . In this paper , I will focus on things as depositories of social and cultural meaning . Things are a way to define who we are to ...
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... things , but form also the context in which other symbolic and social meanings of things are developed . The ( economic ) scarcity of things is only one of the relevant dimensions within exchange relationships . Things may come to ...
... things , but form also the context in which other symbolic and social meanings of things are developed . The ( economic ) scarcity of things is only one of the relevant dimensions within exchange relationships . Things may come to ...
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