Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value

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Now a widely cited classic, this innovative book is the first comprehensive synthesis of economic, political, and cultural theories of value. David Graeber reexamines a century of anthropological thought about value and exchange, in large measure to find a way out of ongoing quandaries in current social theory, which have become critical at the present moment of ideological collapse in the face of Neoliberalism. Rooted in an engaged, dynamic realism, Graeber argues that projects of cultural comparison are in a sense necessarily revolutionary projects: He attempts to synthesize the best insights of Karl Marx and Marcel Mauss, arguing that these figures represent two extreme, but ultimately complementary, possibilities in the shape such a project might take. Graeber breathes new life into the classic anthropological texts on exchange, value, and economy. He rethinks the cases of Iroquois wampum, Pacific kula exchanges, and the Kwakiutl potlatch within the flow of world historical processes, and recasts value as a model of human meaning-making, which far exceeds rationalist/reductive economist paradigms.

Über den Autor

David Graeber is Professor of Anthropology at The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is the author of Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011), The Utopia of Rules (2015) and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (2018). In addition to his academic work, Graeber is an activist, who has been involved with such movements as the Global Justice Movement and Occupy Wall Street.

Zusammenfassung

The first theoretical synthesis of economic, political, and cultural theories of value

Extremely lively and accessible to an undergraduate audience in a field where the books available for undergraduate teaching are woefully inadequate. At the same time, sufficiently complex for graduate and postgraduate readers

Successfully links theoretical questions about value with real-world issues of political and economic inequalities

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Few Words by Way of Introduction Three Ways of Thinking about Value Current Directions in Exchange Theory Value as the Importance of Actions Action and Reflection, or, Notes Toward a Theory of Wealth and Power Wampum and Social Creativity Among the Iroquois Marcel Mauss Revisited The False Coin of our Own Dreams, or, the Problem of the Fetish IIIb

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2002
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xiii 337 S.
ISBN-13:	9780312240455
ISBN-10:	0312240457
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Graeber, D.
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan US
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 140 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	D. Graeber
Erscheinungsdatum:	08.02.2002
Gewicht:	0,444 kg