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 commoditi

Jane L. Collins is professor of rural sociology and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) Winifred Creamer is associate professor of anthropology at Northern Illinois University Catherine S. Dolan is a lecturer in development and gender studies at the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia in England Angelique Haugerud is associate professor of anthropology at Rutgers University Peter D. Little is professor of anthropology at the University of Kentucky Stuart Plattner is program director for cultural anthropology at the National Science Foundation Nicole Polier has taught anthropology and gender studies at Yale and Wesleyan Universities Bruce D. Roberts is assistant professor of anthropology at Minnesota State University (Moorhead) Mitchell S. Rothman is associate professor and coordinator of anthropology at Widener University (Chester, Pennsylvania) Lois Stanford is associate professor of anthropology at New Mexico State University M. Priscilla Stone is director of international studies at Washington University in St. Louis Gabriela Vargas-Cetina is professor of anthropology at the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, in Mexico Bob White is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California at Santa Cruz Randy Ziegenhorn is visiting assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa