Anthropologies of Value

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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.
List 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

Sujets

• Political Ideologies
• Social Science
• HISTORY
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Sociologie, société et politique
• 21st century
• Communism
• Historiography
• Anthropology
• Communisme
• Social
• Culture

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 août 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783719785
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

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Anthropologies of Value

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Series Editors: Professor Vered Amit, Concordia University Doctor Jamie Cross, University of Edinburgh and Professor Christina Garsten, Stockholm University

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Anthropologies of Value

Edited by Luis Fernando AngostoFerrández and Geir Henning Presterudstuen

First published 2016 by Pluto Press 345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA

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Copyright © Luis Fernando AngostoFerrández and Geir Henning Presterudstuen 2016

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List o Figures Series Preace Acknowledgements

Contents

The Value of Everything and the Price of Nothingness Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández

PART I

EMERGING VALUE IN THE ‘GLOBAL SOUTH’

 1On the Capacity to Change the Structural Parameters of Value: The Sale of One Particular Cook IslandTivaivai  Jane Horan  2 Value and the Art of Deception: Public Morality in a Papua New Guinean Ponzi Scheme  John Cox  3Asbin: A ‘Has Been’ of Papua New Guinea Highlands Gift Exchange?  Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh  4 The Value of theVanua: 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 inGran 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

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 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

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List o Figures

1.1M¯ama¯Vereara’stivaivai taoreiunder construction in November 1999 1.2Ma¯ma¯VerearaMaeva,Ma¯m¯aKimioraSamuelandM¯am¯a TokerauMunroesittinginfrontofM¯ama¯Vereara’swinning tivaivai taorei, at the craft display during the National Council of Women’s conference in October 2000 2.1 Extract from one of Musingku’s speeches 2.2 ‘Thank God for my millions’ 7.1 Imperial TransAntarctic Expedition

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Series Preace

Anthropology is a discipline based upon indepth ethnographic works that deal with wider theoretical issues in the context of particular, local conditions – to paraphrase an important volume from the series:large issues explored insmall places. This series has a particular mission: to publish work that moves away from an oldstyle descriptive ethnography that is strongly areastudies oriented, and offer genuine theoretical arguments that are of interest to a much wider readership, but which are nevertheless located and grounded in solid ethnographic research. If anthropology is to argue itself a place in the contemporary intellectual world, then it must surely be through such research. We start from the question: ‘What can this ethnographic material tell us about the bigger theoretical issues that concern the social sciences?’ rather than ‘What can these theoretical ideas tell us about the ethnographic context?’ Put this way round, such work becomesaboutlarge issues,set in a (relatively) small place, rather than detailed description of a small place for its own sake. As Clifford Geertz once said, ‘Anthropologists don’t study villages; they studyinvillages.’ By place, we mean not only geographical locale, but also other types of ‘place’ – within political, economic, religious or other social systems. We therefore publish work based on ethnography within political and religious movements, occupational or class groups, among youth, development agencies, and nationalist movements; but also work that is more thematically based – on kinship, landscape, the state, violence, corruption, the self. The series publishes four kinds of volume: ethnographic monographs; comparative texts; edited collections; and shorter, polemical essays. We publish work from all traditions of anthropology, and all parts of the world, which combines theoretical debate with empirical evidence to demonstrate anthropology’s unique position in contemporary scholarship and the contemporary world.

Professor Vered Amit Dr Jamie Cross Professor Christina Garsten

Acknowledgements

This project started to take shape in 2014 in two conference panels, and we are grateful to the organisers of the stimulating academic events that hosted them: the Knowledge/Culture/Economy Conference, held at Western Sydney University, and the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa and New Zealand/Australian Anthropological Society Conference, organised by colleagues of the University of Otago held in Queenstown. We also want to very specially acknowledge the work of the contributors to this volume, all of whom showed an impressive commitment to the project from the outset. This has been an enormously enjoyable and enriching collaboration, and for us an example of what scholarly exchange should be. A special mention of acknowledgement to our home institutions, the University of Sydney and Western Sydney University, which make our work possible. Funding for attending the aforementioned conferences was provided for Luis Fernando by the Schools of Social and Political Sciences and by the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney, for which he is also grateful. He also acknowledges the support of colleagues of the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (CIIR – Grant: CONICYT/FONDAP/ 15110006). Geir Henning wants in turn to express his gratitude for ongoing support from the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University, which made possible the development of research plans and their realisation. Many colleagues have provided valuable feedback and encouragement on the project, and chief among them are Mary Hawkins, Neil Maclean and Rob Stones. In our individual chapters we make special mention of other people who have also made much appreciated contributions. Finally, a note of sincere gratitude for David Castle, the editors of the Anthropology, Culture and Society series (Vered Amit, Jamie Cross and Christina Garsten), and the rest of the team at Pluto Press. For all the volume contributors including ourselves this has been a pleasant and very constructive editorial process. Indeed, people from Pluto made us feel we were on our home planet.

Luis Fernando AngostoFerrández Geir Henning Presterudstuen