In this work, a leading anthropologist and an economist join forces to suggest that people use goods as a means of communicating with each other. The food we ea... » 

In this work, a leading anthropologist and an economist join forces to suggest that people use goods as a means of communicating with each other. The food we eat, the clothes we wear, the homes we live in, the cars we drive - all are culturally determined ways of communicating shared meanings. «