EBOOK Making Things Better: A Workbook on Ritual, Cultural Values, and Environmental Behavior
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A Workbook on Ritual, Cultural Values, and Environmental Behavior
In Making Things Better, A. David Napier demonstrates how anthropological description of non-Western exchange practices and beliefs can be a tonic for contemporary economic systems in which our impersonal relationship to ''things'' transforms the animate elements of social life into inanimate sets of commodities. His arguments also have implications for the rights and legal status of indigenous peoples, which are drawn out in the course of the book.
In Making Things Better, A. David Napier demonstrates how anthropological description of non-Western exchange practices and beliefs can be a tonic for contemporary economic systems in which our impersonal relationship to ''things'' transforms the animate elements of social life into inanimate sets of commodities. His arguments also have implications for the rights and legal status of indigenous peoples, which are drawn out in the course of the book.