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Commodity Fetishism

Politics, The Economy

Over at Savage Minds I have a post about consumerism and inequality. Here is a taste:

Unfortunately, today’s anthropologists seem to be increasingly fetishizing the commodity. There are lots of reasons for this … However, I worry about this growing emphasis on consumption, especially as such studies can obscure the very nature of social inequality which is about much more than what we can consume.

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