| Description |
1 online resource (273 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Anthropology, Culture and Society
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Anthropology, culture, and society.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; The Value of Everything of the Price of Nothingness -- 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. |
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4. The Value of the Vanua: The Nexus of People and Land in Fiji's Market Economy -- Geir Henning Presterudstuen5. 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. |
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9. Distributions of Wealth, Distributions of Waste: Abject Capital and Accumulation by Disposal -- David Boarder Giles10. 'The University is Kind of an Impossible Place': Universities Towards and Against Capitalism -- Fern Thompsett; Notes on Contributors; Index. |
| Summary |
An edited collection which contains unusual and global case studies providing a Marxist analysis of the commodification of life. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Value.
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Value. |
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Commodification.
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Commodification. |
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North and south.
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North and south. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Henning Presterudstuen, Geir, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Angosto-Ferrandez, Luis Fernando. Anthropologies of Value : Cultures of Accumulation Across the Global North and South. London : Pluto Press, ©2016 9780745336633 |
| ISBN |
9781783719785 (electronic book) |
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1783719788 (electronic book) |
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0745336639 |
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9780745336633 |
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