Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value
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...Beyond Marxist economic theory, anthropologists pay attention to the fetishistic character of gift economies, looking at how the latter personify objects and create qualitative relations between them, in contrast with commodity economies which treat human parts as objects and are meant to establish quantitative equivalence value between objects (Graeber, 2001)....
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...However, the pig is an embodiment of such a marital relationship until it leaves the domestic sphere and enters the public sphere of male ceremonial exchange, where its exchange-value comes to embody the importance of relations between men (Graeber, 2001, pp. 41)....
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...…the fetishistic character of gift economies, looking at how the latter personify objects and create qualitative relations between them, in contrast with commodity economies which treat human parts as objects and are meant to establish quantitative equivalence value between objects (Graeber, 2001)....
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...…various social and cultural dimensions depending on the different monetary forms and contexts in which they are deployed (zelizer, 1989; dodd, 1998; Graeber, 2001). thus, as north describes, money is no more than a ‘discourse, a social construction’ that can actually take different, better forms…...
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...…relations of solidarity and justice with proximate and distant others, concern for land and for the global environment, social inclusion of the disadvantaged, and the reskilling of everyday life, thus going beyond a narrow understanding of economic value (Gibson-Graham, 1996, 2006; Graeber, 2001)....
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...In both cases, wampum tended to arrive already woven into belts uniform both in color and in size.10 Once it arrived, wampum appears to have been divided among important office-holders, a class who some early sources even refer to as ‘nobles”’ “It is they who furnish them,” wrote Lafitau, “and it is among them that they are redivided when presents are made to the village, and when replies to the belts of their ambassadors are sent” (Holmes 1883:244); though there are some hints of ceremonial dances or other events in which officeholders would “cast wampum to the spectators” or otherwise redistribute the stuff (Michelson 1974; Fenton 1998:128; Beauchamp 1898:11)....
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...Foucault, Michel 1972 The Archaeology of Knowledge (A. M. Sheridan-Smith, trans.)....
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...Most of these usages of course go back to the work of Michel Foucault, particularly Discipline and Punish (1977:170–94), in which he argues that there was a major shift in the way power was exercised in Europe at the beginning of the eighteenth century....
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...Michelson, Gunther 1974 “Upstreaming Bruyas.”...
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...It was on the basis of this same kind of structuralism that Michel Foucault (1972) could then go on to argue that the very notion of “man” or humanity on which the human sciences are based is not really a universal category but a peculiar Enlightenment doctrine that will someday pass away....
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