Anthropologies of Value
Cultures of Accumulation Across the Global North and South| By: | Author |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780745336633 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781783719785 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.