Aesthetes in the marketplace: Collectors in the gun business |
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Authors: | Barbara Stenross |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #3210 Hamilton Hall, 27599-3210 Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
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Abstract: | Marketplaces can provide settings for the appreciation of beauty and the creation of community. The author examines how gun
collectors who buy and sell guns continue to see themselves as aesthetes rather than dealers. Gun collector-dealers turn economic
encounters at commercial gun shows into occasions for teaching others the symbolic uses of guns — as artifacts, curios, andobjets d'art. Economic relations can produce aesthetic value even when the objects exchanged are conventionally defined as symbols of
violence and not beauty. |
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Keywords: | marketplace guns collectors |
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