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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Graeber |
| ISBN: | 0312240449 9780312240448 0312240457 9780312240455 |
| OCLC Number: | 46822270 |
| Description: | xiii, 337 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Three Ways of Talking about Value -- Current Directions in Exchange Theory -- Value as the Importance of Actions -- Action and Reflection, or Notes toward a Theory of Wealth and Power -- Wampum and Social Creativity among the Iroquois -- Marcel Mauss Revisited -- The False Coin of our own Dreams, or the Problem of the Fetish, IIIB. |
| Responsibility: | David Graeber. |
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Abstract:
This volume is a synthesis of economic, political, and cultural theories of value. David Graeber re-examines a century of anthropological thought about value and exchange and argues that projects of cultural comparison are in a sense necessarily revolutionary projects.
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