TodayOs growing fascination with flows of people, commodities, technology, capital, images and ideas across national and other boundaries poses fresh theoretical and methodological challenges to anthropology. Commodities offer a particularly useful window on globalization because they, unlike electronically conveyed capital, transport cultural messages. These ideological or symbolic transfers are of particular interest to economic anthropology. This collection considers how conceptions and roles of commodities may change in response to widening spheres of economic interaction and exchange.
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Angelique Haugerud is associate professor of anthropology at Rutgers University in New Bruswick, New Jersey. M. Priscilla Stone is director of international studies, coordinator of African studies, and an adjunct associate professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. Peter D. Little is professor of anthropology at the University of Kentucky.
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