Kinds of value : an experiment in modal anthropology
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Kockelman Paul (19..-....) ;
- ISBN : 978-0-9966355-8-5, 0-9966355-8-0
- Sujets : Valeur -- Anthropologie, Valeurs sociales, Valeurs (philosophie)
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (105 p.), 18 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Paradigm, 58,
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Résumé
In this slim volume, anthropologist Paul Kockelman showcases, reworks, and extends some of the core resources anthropologists and like-minded scholars have developed for thinking about value. Rather than theorize value head on, he offers a careful interpretation of a Mayan text about an offering to a god that lamentably goes awry. Kockelman analyzes the text, its telling, and the conditions of possibility for its original publication. Starting with a relatively simple definition of value--that which stands at the intersection of what signs stand for and what agents strive for--he unfolds, explicates, and experiments with its variations. Contrary to widespread claims in and around the discipline, Kockelman argues that it is not so-called relations, but rather relations between relations, that are at the heart of the interpretive endeavor.