Gift or commodity: what changes hands in the U.S. garage sale?

Herrmann, Gretchen M.

doi:10.1525/ae.1997.24.4.910

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“…Specifically, Herrmann (1997) and Lastovicka and Fernadez (2005) study disposition through garage/yard sales, Sherry (1990) and Belk et al (1988) explore disposition in the context of flea markets/ swap meets, all of which involve monetary transactions. Lastovicka and Fernadez (2005) call for research that examines voluntary disposition that does not involve financial transactions.…”

Section: Dispositionmentioning

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From trash to treasure and beyond: the meaning of voluntary disposition

Albinsson

Perera

2009

J of Consumer Behaviour

122

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Extant consumer research literature focuses on the subtleties, multiplicity of meanings, and values consumers attach to acquisition of personal possessions. Researchers have devoted less attention to consumers' disposition behaviors, including factors that influence disposition decisions. This paper explores voluntary disposition using data gathered through participant observations and in-depth interviews with a range of consumers, including those involved in clothing exchange (CE) events. The findings provide support for the a priori themes of values and consumption patterns, extending the life of self and goods, and consumers' selfconcept. Additionally, the findings yield emergent themes of role transitions, role models and family patterns, and shared community. Utilizing our findings, and extant literature, we propose a conceptual Framework of Voluntary Disposition that can be utilized to analyze further meanings of consumer disposition patterns in different contexts.

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Section: Dispositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

From trash to treasure and beyond: the meaning of voluntary disposition

Albinsson

Perera

2009

J of Consumer Behaviour

122

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“…Objects can also move ''in and out of the commodity state'' (Appadurai 1986, p. 13). Herrmann (1997), who examined objects exchanged at garage sales, argues that goods first purchased as commodities and then turned into unique items through personal possession return to being commodities at garage sales-because a price is attached to them, increasing their interchangeability with other items. 1 Name has been changed.…”

Section: Commoditization As Processmentioning

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The commoditization of products and taste: Slow Food and the conservation of agrobiodiversity

Lotti

2009

Agric Hum Values

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Slow Food is an Italy-based international organization that aims to save the varieties, breeds, and foods threatened by the standardization and homogenization of agriculture resulting from the widespread use of conventional practices. Through an analysis of one of Slow Food's projects, a Basque Presidium, this paper examines the effects of Slow Food's efforts on the products, producers, and agrobiodiversity it is trying to save. Drawing upon Igor Kopytoff's descriptions of commoditization as process, this paper argues that the products and the values they embody, which Slow Food has identified for their singularity, are commoditized through a variety of mechanisms. This paper then argues that commoditization makes the endeavors of Slow Food resemble the conventional agricultural system it is trying to oppose, as well as undermining the very agrobiodiversity the organization seeks to protect. These effects create a disconnect between the organization's goals and its actions on-the-ground, indicating that Slow Food is not as alternative as it claims to be. This paper ends by examining Slow Food's role within the overall agricultural system, and suggests that the organization's producers are important guardians of the global agrobiodiversity which conventional production erodes.

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“…Reciprocity as an explanatory factor has in anthropological literature been applied to many a context: emotions among Swedish civil servants (Graham 2002); everyday sustainability among sugarcane workers in Brazil (L'Estoile 2014); beggars in Rome (Thomassen 2015); US garage sales (Herrmann 1997); and even in the concentration camp of Auschwitz (Narotzky and Moreno 2002), just to mention a very few examples.…”

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Larsen

2018

A Fair Share of Tax

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There are numerous explanations for why we pay tax, an important aspect being the relations, and expectations, that taxpaying is seen to create. This chapter revisits various research traditions on tax compliance and proposes four different ways in which it addresses reciprocity: tit-fortat, copy-cat, fair share and equality. Sweden, a 'modern' welfare state, has a well-esteemed tax collecting agency that has worked long and deliberately to enhance its standing in society. Despite the agency being liked, tax avoidance is also going on. This ethnography travels full circle around seemingly opposing actors on the Swedish tax arena, at the Swedish Tax Agency and among a group of tax-avoiding Swedes, listening to their stories and justifications-allowing for a thorough understanding of reciprocal relations invoked by carrying out taxation. Thus ends the forty-first stanza in Hávamál, one of the many poems in the Scandinavian Edda. Keywords

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Gift or commodity: what changes hands in the U.S. garage sale?

Cited by 117 publications

References 40 publications

From trash to treasure and beyond: the meaning of voluntary disposition

From trash to treasure and beyond: the meaning of voluntary disposition

The commoditization of products and taste: Slow Food and the conservation of agrobiodiversity

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