Anthropologies of value / edited by Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández and Geir Henning Presterudstuen.

Other author Angosto-Ferrández, Luis Fernando.
Other author Henning Presterudstuen, Geir.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : Pluto Press, 2016.
Descriptionvi, 252 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
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Cover title Anthropologies of value : cultures of accumulation across the global north and south
SeriesAnthropology, culture and society
Anthropology, culture, and society. ^A682721
Contents The value of everything and the price of nothingness / Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández -- On the capacity to change the structural parameters of value : the sale of one particular Cook Island Tivaivai / Jane Horan -- Value and the art of deception : public morality in a Papua New Guinean Ponzi scheme / John Cox -- Asbin : a 'has been' of Papua New Guinea highlands gift exchange? / Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh -- The value of the Vanua : the nexus of people and land in Fiji's market economy / Geir Henning Preserudstuen -- Natural value : rent-capture and the commodification of a waterfall in Gran Sabana, Venezuela / Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández -- Capitalist ventures or solidarity networks? Self-employment in post-Soviet Cuba / Marina Gold -- The relative value of penguins / Moira White -- Quota systems : repositioning value in New Zealand, Icelandic and Irish fisheries / Fiona McCormack -- Distributions of wealth, distributions of waste : abject capital and accumulation by disposal / David Boarder Giles -- "The university is kind of an impossible place' : universities towards and against capitalism / Fern Thompsett.
General noteBased on papers presented at 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, 2014.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2022300599
ISBN0745336639 hardback
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