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Today HAU
– in collaboration with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Rochester –
brings you a new webpage:
The HAU-Morgan Lectures Initiative
~ First, in open access format ~
Emily Martin
The 1986 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
The meaning of money in China and the United States
http://www.haujournal.org/haunet/morganclassic.php
~ and, in video format ~
Peter van der Veer
The 2013 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
The value of comparison
http://www.haujournal.org/haunet/morganvideos.php
Initiated in 2013 by the joint efforts of Giovanni da Col and Robert Foster, the HAU-Morgan Lectures Initiative is a collaborative project between HAU and the Department of Anthropology of the University of Rochester for promoting the multimedia diffusion of past and forthcoming Morgan Lectures (in indexed video or digital sound formats), and the publication of the unedited Morgan Lectures in both open access (online) and hardcopy formats. The HAU-Morgan Lectures Initiative has been established following the realization that academics, nowadays, require prompt access to influential ideas and scholarly material presented in distinguished public lectures and can no longer wait years to access such renowned scholarship in print. In parallel, the initiative has been fostered to breathe new life into some highly valuable Morgan Lectures that hitherto remained unpublished, including: Emily Martin’s The Meaning of Money in China and United States (1986), Edmund Leach’s The Marxist Heritage of Lewis Henry Morgan (1975), Gilbert Lewis’ Pandora’s Box (1979), and many more. In the near future, the initiative aims to make available in digital format the original recordings of selected lectures (e.g., Nancy Munn’s The fame of Gawa). For further information write Sean Dowdy (Managing Editor, [log in to unmask]) or Julie Billaud (Associate Editor and HAU-Morgan Initiative coordinator, [log in to unmask]).
In this first installment of the HAU-Morgan Lectures Initative, we bring you two open access gems:
First, the complete indexed video recording of Peter van der Veer’s 2013 Morgan Lectures: The value of comparison. Each year, HAU and University of Rochester will host videos of the most recent Morgan Lectures.
Second, as part of the project to unbury the unedited Morgan Lectures, we present in Open Access format (and coming this summer in hardcopy), Emily Martin’s 1986 Morgan Lectures: The meaning of money in China and the United States. With in-depth historical and ethnographic knowledge, this work stands out as a true classic, not only for scholars of China and the United States, but for those working in the history and anthropology of money. As relevant and timely now as it was twenty-eight years ago, this lecture series highlights the vicissitudes of money beyond tired theoretical divides between global political economy and local symbolic relativism. Indeed, now that economic forecasts show that China will pass the US as the world’s leading economic power this year, Martin’s lectures could not be more germane, more insightful, and more poised for an ethnographic critique of the economic present.
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Praise for Emily Martin’s The meaning of money in China and the United States
“At last, and miraculously free-of-charge by virtue of Hau, we have Emily Martin’s crucial contribution to the anthropology of money. Here is a detailed historical, archival, and ethnographic examination of the “dense meanings deposited in money” in the longest-running monetized economy in world history, namely that of China. Certain contrasts with European history define Martin’s point of departure, and one which adds power to our conviction that, without China, the theorization of money is necessarily impoverished. In exquisite ethnographic detail from PRC sources and fieldwork in Taiwan, and drawing widely on the anthropological archive, Martin shows just how differently “accumulation” works in different systems of conversion and configuration of value. Martin’s comparative analytics offer insights into the sociality-independence axis of transactions in the Chinese and Western money systems, in practice and in cultural definition, along with the mapping of money onto a moral axis according to degrees and kinds of sociability and evil/occult properties. This lecture series may be almost thirty years old but it is not a single day out of date. We need it. It deserves to be an instant treasure in the study of money.”
—Jane I. Guyer, George Armstrong Kelly Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, author of Marginal gains: Monetary transactions in Atlantic Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2004).
“Although delivered in 1986, Emily Martin’s lectures are both timely and iconoclastic. Timely because she anticipates and contributes to contemporary reassessments of capitalism (notably, David Graeber’s magisterial Debt: The first 5000 years) from the simultaneously comparative and critical vantage of anthropology—a vantage frequently promised but seldom so successfully brought to realization. Iconoclastic because as anthropology’s “ontological turn” (indexed in a shift from critiques of ideology to “knowledge production”) gains steam, Martin’s unapologetic affirmation of critique is refreshing. Drawing creatively from broad familiarity with China and from ethnographic involvements in the contemporary United States, Martin makes a compelling case to the effect that, in the final analysis, money (like debt) possesses potentials both to connect people to others and to become a fetishized instrument of alienation and exploitation.”
—P. Steven Sangren, Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University, author of Chinese sociologics: An anthropological account of the role of alienation in social reproduction (LSE Monographs, Athlone, 2007).
“This is a superb comparative study of the different meanings associated with money in China and the United States. Through extremely rich ethnographic and historical examples, Emily Martin reveals the distinctive ways that money is understood and employed in social practices in both cultures. Inter alia, these lectures are a beautiful demonstration that many of our theories about the impact that money has on society are based implicitly on American conceptions found in the United States—which should by no means be considered as some kind of inherent or universal result of the workings of money. Emily Martin’s Morgan Lectures are a true classic, and will remain so for years to come.”
—Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University, author of To become a god: Cosmology, sacrifice, and self-divinization in early China (Harvard University Asia Center, 2002).
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More News from HAU
· HAU’s next journal issue – Volume 4, Issue 1 – is coming in late June! Keep your eyes peeled for the release.
· We would also like to announce a major addition to the HAU team: please join us in welcoming Timothy Elfenbein (Managing Editor of Cultural Anthropology) as HAU’s first “Infrastructure Editor”! With major editorial experience and a passion for open access anthropology, Tim’s invaluable addition to the team will help to improve HAU’s infrastructure, user-friendliness, and overall production process.
· A reminder: HAU has now teamed up with the University of Chicago Press to deliver our Book Series in Paperback! That’s right, this year you will be able to support our Open Access publishing program by purchasing sleek copies of HAU’s books! Stay tuned in the next couple months for our first releases of 2014!
· Another reminder: HAU is still accepting applications for our Social Media Internship. Apply now and become part of the Open Access movement! Deadline for application is May 8th. You can download the application here: http://bit.ly/1jumsvE
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