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- Title
GLOBAL INTEGRATION AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF CULTURE.
- Authors
Nash, June
- Abstract
When political scientists of the nineteenth century envisioned the commodification of what they called "natural economies" with the advance of capitalism, they could never have imagined the degree to which this would progress by the end of the twentieth century. Marx's dire predictions about the alienation of producers in a fetishized world, where all social relations would be reduced to exchange relations and measured in cash terms, has within a century and a half of his death come to pass. The professions of medicine and law today set a price on body parts and even life and death; art has become the ultimate store of value in which to invest during turbulent stock exchange; and sales of services that include rental of wombs are now becoming available to a degree that would have made even historical materialists with a grim view of the future under capitalism shudder.
- Subjects
ECONOMIC conditions of ethnic groups; CAPITALISM &; society; ARTISANS; TOURISM &; art
- Publication
Ethnology, 2000, Vol 39, Issue 2, p129
- ISSN
0014-1828
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3773839