Preliminary reading
Arjun Appadurai (Ed). 1986. The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. Esp. chapters 1 and 2.
Alfred Gell. 1998. Art and Agency. Clarendon Press. Oxford.
Alfred Gell. 1999. The art of anthropology: essays and diagrams. Athlone. London. Esp. chapters 5 and 6.
Bruno Latour. 1993. We have never been modern. Harvard University Press. Cambridge. Mass.
Christopher Pinney and Nicholas Thomas (Ed). 2001. Beyond aesthetics: art and the technologies of enchantment. Berg. Oxford.