Kinds of Value: An Experiment in Modal Anthropology - Couverture souple

Kockelman, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0996635580 ISBN 13 : 9780996635585

Editeur : Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC, 2020

Synopsis

In this slim volume, anthropologist Paul Kockelman showcases, reworks, and extends some of the core resources anthropologists and like-minded scholars have developed for thinking about value. Rather than theorize value head on, he offers a careful interpretation of a Mayan text about an offering to a god that lamentably goes awry. Kockelman analyzes the text, its telling, and the conditions of possibility for its original publication. Starting with a relatively simple definition of value--that which stands at the intersection of what signs stand for and what agents strive for--he unfolds, explicates, and experiments with its variations. Contrary to widespread claims in and around the discipline, Kockelman argues that it is not so-called relations, but rather relations between relations, that are at the heart of the interpretive endeavor.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Paul Kockelman is professor of anthropology at Yale University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0996635580
• ISBN 13: 9780996635585
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 72
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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