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Anthropologies of Value: Cultures of Accumulation Across the Global North and South
Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrandez (Ed.)
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Description for Anthropologies of Value: Cultures of Accumulation Across the Global North and South
Hardback. An edited collection which contains unusual and global case studies providing a Marxist analysis of the commodification of life Editor(s): Angosto-Ferrandez, Luis Fernando; Presterudstuen, Geir Henning. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 426.
Anthropologies of Value analyses the creation of value in a wide range of political and cultural contexts. This edited collection includes anthropological case studies from around the globe; from the commodification of a Venezuelan waterfall to the relative value of penguins in periods of imperialist expansion. Questioning the validity of binary oppositions such as `north/south', `core/periphery' and `west/the rest' as the basis of generalisations about culturally-mediated engagements with capitalism, this collection leaves no stone unturned in its search to understand and define anthropological value theory. It provides much-needed, controversial new material for students ... Read more
Anthropologies of Value analyses the creation of value in a wide range of political and cultural contexts. This edited collection includes anthropological case studies from around the globe; from the commodification of a Venezuelan waterfall to the relative value of penguins in periods of imperialist expansion. Questioning the validity of binary oppositions such as `north/south', `core/periphery' and `west/the rest' as the basis of generalisations about culturally-mediated engagements with capitalism, this collection leaves no stone unturned in its search to understand and define anthropological value theory. It provides much-needed, controversial new material for students ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Anthropology, Culture and Society
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745336633
SKU
V9780745336633
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About Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrandez (Ed.)
Luis F. Angosto-Ferrandez teaches anthropology and Latin American studies at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Venezuela Reframed: Bolivarianism, Indigenous Peoples and Socialisms of the 21st Century (Zed Books, 2015) and editor of Democracy, Revolution and Geopolitics in Latin America: Venezuela and the International Politics of Discontent (Routledge 2014). Geir Henning Presterudstuen is a lecturer in anthropology ... Read more
Reviews for Anthropologies of Value: Cultures of Accumulation Across the Global North and South
'A provocative book ... This is a remarkable achievement and one which I hope restores economic anthropology to its former prominence as an area of inquiry.'
Jennifer Alexander, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 'This collection of ethnographically-informed essays from around the world turns the abstractions of globalisation theory upside down and provides new insights into the values that ... Read more
Jennifer Alexander, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 'This collection of ethnographically-informed essays from around the world turns the abstractions of globalisation theory upside down and provides new insights into the values that ... Read more