04108nam 22005895 450 991083825220332120211013060542.00-226-36058-X10.7208/9780226360584(CKB)3710000000828772(MiAaPQ)EBC4437666(StDuBDS)EDZ0001518977(DE-B1597)523931(OCoLC)956508637(DE-B1597)9780226360584(EXLCZ)99371000000082877220200424h20162016 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierAnthropologists in the Stock Exchange A Financial History of Victorian Science /Marc FlandreauChicago :University of Chicago Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (442 pages)Previously issued in print: 2016.0-226-36030-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --Acknowledgments --Introduction: The Stock Exchange Modality --1. Writing about the Margin --2. Rise of the Cannibals --3. Anthropologists without Qualities --4. The Ogre of Foreign Loans --5. The Learned Society in the Foreign Debt Food Chain --6. Acts of Speculation --7. Wanderlust: A Victorian Racist --8. Salt-Water Anthropology --9. The Violence of Science --10. The Man Who Ate the Cannibals --11. Subject Races --Conclusion: Catharsis --Supplement 1: Principles of Social Editing --Supplement 2: Pim's Travels --Supplement 3: The Demographics of Cannibals --Supplement 4: How to Prick an Anthropological Bubble --Notes --Sources --Works Cited --IndexUncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of global finance. Marc Flandreau tracks a group of Victorian gentleman-swindlers as they shuffled between the corridors of the London Stock Exchange and the meeting rooms of learned society, showing that anthropological studies were integral to investment and speculation in foreign government debt, and, inversely, that finance played a crucial role in shaping the contours of human knowledge. Flandreau argues that finance and science were at the heart of a new brand of imperialism born during Benjamin Disraeli's first term as Britain's prime minister in the 1860s. As anthropologists advocated the study of Miskito Indians or stated their views on a Jamaican rebellion, they were in fact catering to the impulses of the stock exchange-for their own benefit. In this way the very development of the field of anthropology was deeply tied to issues relevant to the financial market-from trust to corruption. Moreover, this book shows how the interplay between anthropology and finance formed the foundational structures of late nineteenth-century British imperialism and helped produce essential technologies of globalization as we know it today.AnthropologyEnglandHistory19th centuryLearned institutions and societiesCorrupt practicesEnglandLondonHistory19th centuryStock exchangesCorrupt practicesEnglandLondonHistory19th centuryLondon Stock Exchange.anthropology.knowledge.science.stock exchange.technologies of globalization.trust.AnthropologyHistoryLearned institutions and societiesCorrupt practicesHistoryStock exchangesCorrupt practicesHistory301.094209034Flandreau Marcauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut499864DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910838252203321Anthropologists in the stock exchange1470874UNINA