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Toward an anthropological theory of value : the false coin of our own dreams

Autor David Graeber

Editorial PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Toward an anthropological theory of value : the false coin of our own dreams
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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...

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  • Editorial PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
  • ISBN13 9780312240455
  • ISBN10 0312240457
  • Tipo LIBRO
  • Páginas 337
  • Año de Edición 2001
  • Idioma Inglés
  • Encuadernación Rústica

Toward an anthropological theory of value : the false coin of our own dreams

Autor David Graeber

Editorial PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

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...

32,00€
No disponible, consulte disponibilidad
Envío gratis
España peninsular

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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 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.

Author Biography: 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!.