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... the main symbolic meaning embodied in goods -- apart
from functional use -- was a drive for social status ... -- ...
luxury artefacs ... -- ... signified imaginative
participation in a world of exotic, sensuos experience ... --
... titillating theatricality, perhaps even a faint
and fitfull dream of personal transformation ...








life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / fable(s) of abundance