NEW FROM PLUTO PRESS:
Anthropologies of Value: Cultures of Accumulation Across the Global North
and South
Edited by Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrandez and Geir Henning Presterudstuen
Available here: http://bit.ly/2bF7IKq
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About the book:
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.
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About the editors:
Luis F. Angosto-Ferrández teaches anthropology and Latin American studies
at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Venezuela Reframed:
Bolivarianism, Indigenous Peoples and Socialisms of the 21st Century (Zed
Books, 2015) and editor of Democracy, Revolution and Geopolitics in Latin
America: Venezuela and the International Politics of Discontent (Routledge
2014).
Geir Henning Presterudstuen is a lecturer in anthropology at Western Sydney
University. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in Fiji since 2009 and his
main research interests, on which he has published widely, include the
intersections between social categories such as gender, ethnicity, class
and sexuality in context of the modern market economy. He is the co-editor
of Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan,
2014).
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Praise for Anthropologies of Value:
‘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
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PDF | 9781783719785 | £60 / $90
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