Commodity certification and cultural valorization in global markets

Joana Nascimento

Chapter 2 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology, 2025, pp 142-146 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Recent developments in cultural research have foregrounded how discussions about ‘heritage’ have spread globally, sparking intense debates about the ‘value’ of cultural forms, practices and products – in academia and beyond. In this context, forms of commodity certification centered on the ‘heritage value’ of particular products and industries emerge as intriguing examples of cultural valorization, complicating earlier debates focused on potential contradictions between ‘cultural value’ and ‘economic value’ in heritage practices. In this entry, I propose drawing on the concept of ‘valorization’ to examine how different kinds of value can emerge (and coexist) in the production and certification of certain commodities. Drawing on my own ethnographic research in the Harris Tweed industry – an extremely localized, trademark-protected ‘heritage industry’ with a global reach – I consider how a focus on ‘valorization’ can illuminate the diverse practices, actors and moral understandings involved in the recognition, protection and promotion of industries identified as culturally significant.

Keywords: Commodity certification; Global circulation; Harris Tweed; Heritage; Valorization; Value (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035312566
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781035312573.00039 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 403 Forbidden

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:22348_31

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jack Sweeney ().