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Legacies, logics, logistics : essays in the anthropology of the platform economy / Jane I. Guyer

Guyer, Jane I., 1943- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016

xii, 312 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

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?

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Enthält 11 Beiträge

978-0-226-32687-0 ( : pbk. : alk. paper); 978-0-226-32673-3 ( : cloth : alk. paper)

978-0-226-32690-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2015017229

OCoLC: 939524956     

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.7208/chicago/9780226326900.001.0001

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LOC-SH: Economic anthropology ; Economics -- History -- 21st century ; Economic anthropology -- Africa ; Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1960-

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?