A student asked if a painting in the main office was for sale. We replied we'd have to get Arjun Appadurai to agree to put it into commodity candidacy.

UPDATE: just got off the phone with Arjun and he said he was cool with it as long as we give "mad props" to Kopytoff.

UPDATE: just exchanged the painting for some yamcoin and loudly declared "this is now in the process of commoditization!" as we handed it to the student.

UPDATE: the student is beaming with academic glee having just acquired both anthropological knowledge and a painting.

UPDATE: we are also beaming because we totally unloaded a lame painting of Holiday World to some buster student for some candy yamcoin.

UPDATE: moral economy, shmoral economy. Self-interested model 4 lyfe.