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Growing in Motion: The Circulation of Used Things on Second-hand Markets
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- Appelgren, Staffan, 1967 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för globala studier, socialantropologi,School of Global Studies, Social Anthropology
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- Bohlin, Anna, 1970 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för globala studier, socialantropologi,School of Global Studies, Social Anthropology
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- 2015
- 2015
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. - 2000-1525. ; 7:1, s. 143-168
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Abstract
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Stäng
- From having been associated with poverty and low status, the commerce with second-hand goods in retro shops, flea markets, vintage boutiques and trade via Internet is expanding in Sweden as in many countries in the Global North. This article argues that a significant aspect of the recent interest in second-hand and reuse concerns the meaningfulness of circulation in social life. Using classic an- thropological theory on how the circulation of material culture generates sociality, it focuses on how second-hand things are transformed by their circulation. Rather than merely having cultural biographies, second-hand things are reconfigured through their shifts between different social contexts in a process that here is un- derstood as a form of growing. Similar to that of an organism, this growth is con- tinuous, irreversible and dependent on forces both internal and external to it. What emerges is a category of things that combine elements of both commodities and gifts, as these have been theorized within anthropology. While first cycle com- modities are purified of their sociality, the hybrid second-hand thing derives its ontological status as well as social and commercial value precisely from retaining ‘gift qualities’, produced by its circulation.
Ämnesord
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Sociologi -- Socialantropologi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Sociology -- Social Anthropology (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Second-hand
- circulation
- material culture
- retro
- vintage
- growing
- gifts
- commodities
Publikations- och innehållstyp
- ref (ämneskategori)
- art (ämneskategori)
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