Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (433 Seiten)
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Graeber, David, 1961 - 2020 Possibilities
DDC:
306.301
Schlagwort(e):
Economic anthropology Philosophy
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Capitalism
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Consumption (Economics)
;
Hierachies Social aspects
;
Capitalism
;
Economic anthropology
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Madagaskar
Kurzfassung:
Pt. 1. Some thoughts on the origins of our current predicament. Manners, deference, and private property: or, elements for a general theory of hierarchy -- The very idea of consumption: desire, phantasms, and the aesthetics of destruction from medieval times to the present -- Turning modes of production inside-out: or, why capitalism is a transformation fo slavery (short version) -- Fetishism as social creativity: or, fetishes are gods in the process of construction -- pt. 2. Provisional autonomous zone: dilemmas of authority in rural Madagascar. Provisional autonomous zone: or, the ghost-state in Madagascar -- Dancing with corpses resonsidered: an interpretation of Famadihana (in Arivonimamo, Madigascar) -- Love magic and political morality in central Madagascar, 1875-1990 -- Oppression -- pt. 3. Direct action, direct democracy, and social theory. The twilight of vanguardism -- Social theory as science and utopia: or, does the prospect of a general sociological theory still mean anything in an age of globalization? -- There never was a west: or, democracy emerges from the spaces in between -- On the phenomenology of giant puppets: broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role of the police in American culture
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Pt. 1. Some thoughts on the origins of our current predicament. Manners, deference, and private property: or, elements for a general theory of hierarchy -- The very idea of consumption: desire, phantasms, and the aesthetics of destruction from medieval times to the present -- Turning modes of production inside-out: or, why capitalism is a transformation fo slavery (short version) -- Fetishism as social creativity: or, fetishes are gods in the process of construction -- pt. 2. Provisional autonomous zone: dilemmas of authority in rural Madagascar. Provisional autonomous zone: or, the ghost-state in Madagascar -- Dancing with corpses resonsidered: an interpretation of Famadihana (in Arivonimamo, Madigascar) -- Love magic and political morality in central Madagascar, 1875-1990 -- Oppression -- pt. 3. Direct action, direct democracy, and social theory. The twilight of vanguardism -- Social theory as science and utopia: or, does the prospect of a general sociological theory still mean anything in an age of globalization? -- There never was a west: or, democracy emerges from the spaces in between -- On the phenomenology of giant puppets: broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role of the police in American culture.
Anmerkung:
Formerly CIP
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
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