Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes write by Olivia Angé. This book was released on 2018-09-01. Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the pervasiveness of barter across societies, this mode of transaction has largely escaped the anthropologist’s gaze. Drawing on data from fairs in the Argentinean Andes, this book addresses a local modality of barter known as cambio. Bringing out its embeddedness within religious celebrations, it argues that cambio is practiced as a sacrifice to catholic figures and local ancestors, thereby challenging a widespread view of barter as a non-monetary form of commodity exchange. This ethnography of Andean barter considers processes of value creation, both economic and subjective, to further our understanding of how social groups create themselves through economic exchanges.
Work, Society, and the Ethical Self
Work, Society, and the Ethical Self - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Work, Society, and the Ethical Self write by Chris Hann. This book was released on 2021-09-17. Work, Society, and the Ethical Self available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Primarily on the basis of ethnographic case-studies from around the world, this volume links investigations of work to questions of personal and professional identity and social relations. In the era of digitalized neoliberalism, particular attention is paid to notions of freedom, both collective (in social relations) and individual (in subjective experiences). These cannot be investigated separately. Rather than juxtapose economy with ethics (or the profitable with the good), the authors uncover complex entanglements between the drudgery experienced by most people in the course of making a living and ideals of emancipated personhood.
Embodying Exchange
Embodying Exchange - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Embodying Exchange write by Juliane Müller. This book was released on 2024-02-02. Embodying Exchange available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Addressing the infrastructural, legal and moral complexities in contemporary world trade, this book uses an ethnographic analysis of the interface of multinational brand manufacturers and popular traders in the Bolivian Andes. It offers a situated account of traders’ understanding of regulatory principles, and traces commercial dynamics beyond the limits of what we use to define as economic. It aims to humanize our understanding of the economy by grounding it in everyday life and morality.
Of Hoarding and Housekeeping
Of Hoarding and Housekeeping - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Of Hoarding and Housekeeping write by Sasha Newell. This book was released on 2023-10-13. Of Hoarding and Housekeeping available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hoarding has largely been approached from a psychological and universal perspective, and decluttering from an aesthetic and ecological one, while little work has been done to think about the cultural and global economic aspects of these phenomena. Of Hoarding and Housekeeping provides an anthropological, global, and comparative angle to the understanding of hoarding and decluttering using cases from a variety of countries including US, Japan, India, Cameroon, and Argentina. Focusing on the house, with careful attention to material flows in and out, this book examines practices of accumulation, storage, decluttering, and waste as practices of kinship and the objects themselves as material kin.
Ecological Nostalgias
Ecological Nostalgias - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecological Nostalgias write by Olivia Angé. This book was released on 2020-11-01. Ecological Nostalgias available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals. In this time of climate change, this book explores how nostalgia for fading ecologies unfolds into the interstitial spaces between the biological, the political and the social, regret and hope, the past, the present and the future.
