Anthropologies of value : cultures of accumulation across the global north and south / edited by Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández and Geir Henning Presterudstuen.

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Other Authors: Angosto-Ferrández, Luis Fernando (Editor), Henning Presterudstuen, Geir (Editor)
Other title:Subtitle from cover: Cultures of accumulation across the global north and south.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Pluto Press, 2016.
Series:Anthropology, culture, and society.
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Table of 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.