Igor Kopytoff [1930-2013]
2013-08-25
A number of prominent anthropologists have passed away in recent weeks, perhaps most notably, George W. Stocking [July 13th, aged 85], Keith Basso [Aug. 4th, aged 73] and Igor Kopytoff on August 9th. With his major contribution ‘The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process’, in Arjun Appadurai’s groundbreaking TheContinue Reading