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Author_Sylvia Yanagisako
Bourgeoisie
Capital accumulation
Capital asset
Capitalism
Career
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Competition
Consideration
De facto
Debt
Distrust
Diversification (marketing strategy)
Division of labour
Dyeing
Economics
Economy
Employment
Entrepreneurship
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Family Conflict
Financial capital
Hegemony
His Family
Ideology
Industrial district
Industry
Informant
Institution
Investor
Kinship
Labour power
Manufacturing
Marketing
Marriage
Marxism
Mass production
Modernity
My Father
Narrative
Origin story
Ownership
Partnership
Paternalism
Patriarchy
Personhood
Politics
Printing
Productive capacity
Retail
Self-Made Man (book)
Shareholder
Sibling
Social actions
Social class
Social relation
Society
Spouse
Subcontractor
Subjectivity
Symbolic capital
Tax
Technical director
Technology
Textile industry
The Other Hand
Vertical integration
Wealth
Workforce
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9780691095103
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 17 Nov 2002
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Producing Culture and Capital is a major theoretical contribution to the anthropological literature on capitalism, as well as a rich case study of kinship and gender relations in northern Italy. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research on thirty-eight firms in northern Italy's silk industry, Sylvia Yanagisako illuminates the cultural processes through which sentiments, desires, and commitments motivate and shape capitalist family firms. She shows how flexible specialization is produced through the cultural dynamics of capital accumulation, management succession, firm expansion and diversification, and the reproduction and division of firms. In doing so, Yanagisako addresses two gaps in Marx's and Weber's theories of capitalism: the absence of an adequate cultural theory of capitalist motivation and the absence of attention to kinship and gender. By demonstrating that kinship and gender are crucial in structuring capitalist action, this study reveals these two gaps to be different facets of the same omission.
A process-oriented approach to class formation and class subjectivity enables the author to incorporate the material and ideological struggles within families into an analysis of class-making and self-making. Yanagisako concludes that both "provincial" and "global" capitalist orientations and strategies operate in an industry that has always been integrated into regional and international relations of production and distribution. Her approach to culture and capitalism as mutually constituted processes offers an alternative to both universal models of capitalism as a mode of production and essentialist models of distinctive "cultures of capitalism."
Sylvia Junko Yanagisako is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. She is the author of "Transforming the Past" and coeditor of "Gender and Kinship" and "Naturalizing Power".
