But the materiality matters too, because in every society that anthropologists have looked at, material stuff operates as a kind of language -- a language of goods, a symbolic language that we use to tell each other stories -- stories, for example, about how important we are.
但物质性也至关重要。 因为，在每一个社会里 人类学者曾研究过的， 物质性东西 犹如一种语言般的运作， 一种商品语言， 一种象征性的语言 我们用它来向彼此讲述故事-- 故事，例如， 我们有多重要。