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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Marx | Production based on production for producers, commodity fetishism, "animal produce only themselves, while men produce the whole of nature" |
| Kopytoff 1986 | Commodity, social biography of things, where, when, who what, how, exchange + use value, value shifts, commodity to some not to others |
| Miller 2001 | The home represents ourselves and world around us, what we fill homes with motivated by what others think, technology, sentimental stuff, home is important to study! |
| Hansen 1994 | Salaula 2nd hand market in Lusaka, things valuable to them and Zim ppl who buy clothes for winter here |
| Gell 1998 | Objects channel agency, hierarchy, 2ndary agents, humans have intentionality via thinking and they activate agency in things, indexes, abduction |
| Latour 1999 | Things are sub-human actants with equal power, everything has agency/ is an agent, actor network theory |
| Powell 2012 | Cellphone, technology, communication, tool to outside world, place importance on belongings, connections |
| Bordieu | soc, cultural and economic capital, artistic taste and habitus determine taste, totemic order: social value underlies economic value, exchange/consumption is a form of communication |
| Sahlins 1964 | Criticises Marx, without consumption object is not a product, production is not just for producers, but for the social relations they carry out. |