For more on these topics and debates, consult these sources:

• Appadurai, Arjun. The Social Life of Things.
• Cooper, Frederick. 2001. "What is the Concept of Globalization Good for? An African Historian's Perspective," African Affairs 101: 189-213. Available Online
• Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction.
• Fogel, Robert William. 1989. Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. New York: Norton and Co.Miller, Daniel. 1997. Capitalism: an Ethnographic Approach.
• Marx, Karl. 1867. "Commodities," in Capital, Vol. 1. (online).
• Miller, Daniel. ed. 1995. Acknowledging Consumption: a Review of New Studies.
• Mintz, Sidney. 1977. The So-called World System. Dialectical Anthropology 2(4).
• Mintz, Sidney W. and Eric R Wolf. 1989. "Reply to Michael Taussig," Critique of Anthropology, pp. 28-31.
• Scott, David. 2004. "Modernity that Predated the Modern: Sidney Mintz’s Caribbean" History Workshop Journal (online).
• Taussig, Michael. 1989. History as Commodity in some Recent American (Anthropological) Literature," Critique of Anthropology. pp 7-27.

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