The commodification of fetishes
Telling the difference between natural and synthetic sapphires
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 2279010 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Andrew Walsh (0000-0003-1438-1492, Western University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2010 |
| Volumen | 37 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 98-114 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2010-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Editorial | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01244.x |
| OpenAlex | W2050983765 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 27 |
| Referencias citadas | 31 |
On the basis of multisited research concerning the international sapphire trade, I discuss what stories told about natural sapphires can reveal about why and how people value these stones. Because the stuff of sapphires (corundum) can be cheaply synthesized in a laboratory, what is perhaps most distinctive and valuable about natural sapphires is their geological origins, a fact that people in the trade recognize and emphasize in their marketing of the gemstones. Demand for natural sapphires is attributable to more than just effective marketing, however. What the stories I cite in this article may reveal best of all are the irreproducible value-adding qualities that are understood by many to be inherent to natural sapphires
Advertising · Archaeology · Business · Commodification · Corundum · Economics · Economy · Mineralogy · Natural (archaeology · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Computer Science · Geology · History · Mineralogy and Gemology Studies
Rumors of Red Mercury
Making Our Beasts
Artisanal Gem Mining in the Urals
From Ashes to Diamonds
Making Charismatic Violence
Exchange Values
A Piece of Greenland? Making Marketable and Artisan Gemstones
Mining
Living with Spirits and Environmental Conservation Efforts in Rural North-eastern Madagascar
Creación de valor y espacio mexicano-estadounidense
Anthropology Becoming … ? The 2010 Sociocultural Anthropology Year in Review
Quand la tugtupite groenlandaise devient une pierre précieuse
Remaking stone and community
Timely rubies. Temporality and Greenlandic gems
Uneven ores
Gemstone supply chains and development in Pakistan
From Dearth to El Dorado
"A Critique of "Speculative Commodities
Introduction
Routinizing and scrutinizing
Greening honey
Lost and/or left behind in a Malagasy outpost of the 'underworld of gemstones
Hot money, cold beer
Emergence and Aftermath
Rock climbing as lithic ethnography
After the Rush
Tracing indium production to the mines of the Cerro Rico de Potosí
Parks and Peoples
People, Plants, and Justice
Weavers and dealers
Sacred commodities
Ethnography in/of the World System
Border Fetishisms
Introduction
Unpacking Culture
Culture and authenticity
FutureNatural
Tangled Routes
Distinction. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Sweetness and Power
The Problem of the Fetish, I
Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America
The Place of Counterfeits in Regimes of Value
Geologies of power
"Hot money" and daring consumption in a northern Malagasy sapphire-mining town
The Maasai and the Lion King
The Obvious Aspects of Ecological Underprivilege in Ankarana, Northern Madagascar
In the Wake of Things
The Rise of Yuppie Coffees and the Reimagination of Class in the United States
The Thing Itself
Inside the Economy of Appearances
Fetishism as social creativity
Old Wine, New Ethnographic Lexicography
After Nature
Ecotourism and Authenticity
| Obras citantes distintas | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 1,8 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Velocidad de citación | recent |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 25 |