Description
Book SynopsisAn edited collection which contains unusual and global case studies providing a Marxist analysis of the commodification of life
Trade Review'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 inform economic transactions in the world today. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the value question in the 21st Century' -- Dr Chris Gregory, Australian National University
'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
Table of ContentsList of Figures
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
The Value of Everything and the Price of Nothingness by Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández
Part I: Emerging Value in the 'Global South'
1. On the Capacity to Change the Structural Parameters of Value: The Sale of One Particular Cook Island Tivaivai - Jane Horan
2. Value and the Art of Deception: Public Morality in a Papua New Guinean Ponzi Scheme - John Cox
3. Asbin: A 'Has-Been' of Papua New Guinea Highlands Gift Exchange? - Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh
4. The Value of the Vanua: The Nexus of People and Land in Fiji’s Market Economy - Geir Henning Presterudstuen
5. Natural Value: Rent-Capture and the Commodification of a Waterfall in Gran Sabana, Venezuela - Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández
6. Capitalist Ventures or Solidarity Networks? Self-Employment in Post-Soviet Cuba - Marina Gold
Part II: Tribulating Values in the 'Global North'
7. The Relative Value of Penguins - Moira White
8. Quota Systems: Repositioning Value in New Zealand, Icelandic and Irish Fisheries - Fiona McCormack
9. Distributions of Wealth, Distributions of Waste: Abject Capital and Accumulation by Disposal - David Boarder Giles
10. ‘The University is Kind of an Impossible Place’: Universities Towards and Against Capitalism - Fern Thompsett
Notes on Contributors
Index
