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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828328803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, [England] : , : Pluto Press, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-78371-978-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Collana: Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Disciplina: 306.3
• Soggetti: Economic anthropology; Conference papers and proceedings.; Developing countries
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.