DL - Igor Kopytoff and Arjun Appadurai, among other economic anthropologists, call this the "social life of things." Imagining the food chain as it were, in which one object passes through the hands of many people and/or generations, thereby acquiring its own biography that tells us a little about he cultural contexts of its production and reception.
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DL - Igor Kopytoff and Arjun Appadurai, among other economic anthropologists, call this the "social life of things." Imagining the food chain as it were, in which one object passes through the hands of many people and/or generations, thereby acquiring its own biography that tells us a little about he cultural contexts of its production and reception.
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