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Value Theory
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- ISBN 9780745336633
- Weight: 422g
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 20 Aug 2016
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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 of anthropology, and proposes an alternative, rarely discussed method of studying the world system which challenges mainstream existing work in the field.
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 of anthropology, and proposes an alternative, rarely discussed method of studying the world system which challenges mainstream existing work in the field.
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 at Western Sydney University. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in Fiji since 2009 and his main research interests, on which he has published widely, include the intersections between social categories such as gender, ethnicity, class and sexuality in context of the modern market economy. He is the co-editor of Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
