Issue 63

Published:

01. 11. 2008

Available: Yes

Content

"I Hate when an Old Object is Dusty"
Object-transformations: Border-crossing, Biography, Identity
- Péter Berta
Objects Created by Subjects - Subjects Constructed Through Object Use
- Arjun Appadurai
Commodities and the Politics of Value
- Igor Kopytoff
The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process
- Christopher B. Steiner
The Quest for Authenticity and the Invention of African Art
- Péter Berta
Identity Politics of Objects
- Léna Simányi
"O, mum, why do you hang on to all this rubbish?"