Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams - Couverture rigide

Graeber, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0312240449 ISBN 13 : 9780312240448

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Synopsis

This volume is a synthesis of economic, political, and cultural theories of value. David Graeber re-examines a century of anthropological thought about value and exchange, in large measure to find a way out of ongoing quandaries in current social theory, which have become critical at the present moment of ideological collapse in the face of Neoliberalism. Rooted in an engaged, dynamic realism, Graeber argues that projects of cultural comparison are in a sense necessarily revolutionary projects. He attempts to synthesize the best insights of Karl Marx and Marcel Mauss, arguing that these figures represent two extreme, but ultimately complementary, possibilities in the shape such a project might take. Graeber breathes new life into the classic anthropological texts on exchange, value, and economy. He rethinks the cases of Iroquois wampum, Pacific kula exchanges, and the Kwakiutl potlatch within the flow of world historical processes, and recasts value as a model of human meaning- making, which far exceeds rationalist/reductive economist paradigms.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This innovative book is the first comprehensive synthesis of economic, political, and cultural theories of value. David Graeber reexamines a century of anthropological thought about value and exchange, in large measure to find a way out of quandaries in c

Biographie de l'auteur

David Graeber teaches anthropology at Yale University. He is currently writing an ethnography of direct action as well as working with the Direct Action Network, People's Global Action, and Ya Basta!.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0312240449
• ISBN 13: 9780312240448
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 358
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible