ISBN:
9780226326870
,
9780226326733
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 312 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Kulturanthropologe
;
Wirtschaft
;
Afrika
;
Wirtschaftskultur
;
Wirtschaftssoziologie
;
Ethnologie
;
Afrika
;
Nigeria
;
Großbritannien
;
Economic anthropology
;
Economics / History / 21st century
;
Economic anthropology / Africa
;
Africa / Economic conditions / 1960-
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Afrika
;
Wirtschaft
;
Kulturanthropologe
Abstract:
Foundations -- The themes of legacies, logics, logistics -- "Toiling ingenuity": food regulation in Britain and Nigeria -- Public economic cultures -- "The craving for intelligibility": speech and silence on the economy under structural adjustment and military rule in Nigeria (with Laray Denzer) -- Prophecy and the near future: thoughts on macroeconomic, evangelical, and punctuated time -- From market to platform: shifting analytics for the study of current capitalism -- Cultures of calculation -- The eruption of tradition?: on ordinality and calculation -- Percentages and perchance: archaic forms in the twenty-first century platforms -- Intricacy and impasse: dilemmas of value in soft-currency economies -- Indexing people to money: the fate of "shelter" -- Toward ethnography and the people's economies -- Composites, fictions, and risk: toward an ethnography of price -- Soft currencies, cash economies, new monies: past and present -- Is the "real economy" disaggregating, disappearing, or deviating?
Description / Table of Contents:
FoundationsThe themes of legacies, logics, logistics -- "Toiling ingenuity": food regulation in Britain and Nigeria -- Public economic cultures -- "The craving for intelligibility": speech and silence on the economy under structural adjustment and military rule in Nigeria (with Laray Denzer) -- Prophecy and the near future: thoughts on macroeconomic, evangelical, and punctuated time -- From market to platform: shifting analytics for the study of current capitalism -- Cultures of calculation -- The eruption of tradition?: on ordinality and calculation -- Percentages and perchance: archaic forms in the twenty-first century platforms -- Intricacy and impasse: dilemmas of value in soft-currency economies -- Indexing people to money: the fate of "shelter" -- Toward ethnography and the people's economies -- Composites, fictions, and risk: toward an ethnography of price -- Soft currencies, cash economies, new monies: past and present -- Is the "real economy" disaggregating, disappearing, or deviating?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Enthält 11 Beiträge
DOI:
10.7208/chicago/9780226326900.001.0001
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