ارزش‌ها و دارایی‌ها: از مقدس تا نمادین (جلد ۲۱) (مجموعه مونوگرافی جامعه‌شناسی اقتصادی، ۲۱)

In this exciting new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology, Cynthia Werner and Duran Bell bring together a group of distinguished anthropologists and economists to discuss the complex ways in which different cultures imbue material objects with symbolic qualities whose value cannot be reduced to material or monetary equivalents. Objects with sacred or symbolic qualities are valued quite differently than mundane objects, and the contributors to this volume set out to unravel how and why. In the first of three sections, the authors consider the extent to which sacred objects can or cannot be exchanged between individuals (e.g., ancestral objects, land, dreaming stories). In the next section, contributors discuss the value and power of markets, money, and credit. They consider theoretical models for understanding money transactions, competing currencies, and the power of credit among marginalized groups around the globe. The last section examines the ways in which contemporary people bestow symbolic value on some objects (e.g., family heirlooms, pre-Columbian artifacts, fashion goods) and finally how some individuals themselves are valued in monetary and symbolic ways. With its emphasis on the interplay of cultural and economic values, this volume will be a vital resource for economists and economic anthropologists. Published in cooperation with the Society for Economic Anthropology. Visit their web page. Blank Page Contents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Values and Valuables: From the Sacred to the Symbolic • Duran Bell and Cynthia Werner Part I: The Power of the Sacred 1 What Mauss Did Not Say: Things You Give, Things You Sell, and Things That Must Be Kept • Maurice Godelier (translated by Nora Scott) 2 Keeping-for-Giving and Giving-for-Keeping: Value, Hierarchy, and the Inalienable in Yap • James A. Egan 3 The Engendering of Ceremonial Knowledge between (and among) Warlpiri Women and Men in the Australian Central Desert • Françoise Dussart Part II: Markets, Money, and Power 4 Conceptions of Capitalism: Godelier and Keynes • Colin Danby 5 Little Tubes of Mighty Power: How Clay Tobacco Pipes from Port Royal, Jamaica, Reflect Socioeconomic Change in Seventeenth-Century English Culture and Society • Georgia L. Fox 6 The Dominance of the Cowry Relative to the Franc in West Africa • Mahir Şaul 7 Ties that Dissolve and Bind: Competing Currencies, Prestige, and Politics in Early Twentieth-Century China • Beth E. Notar 8 Crafts, Gifts, and Capital: Negotiating Credit and Exchange in the Northern Philippines • B. Lynne Milgram 9 Locating the Cultural Context of Credit: Institutional Alternatives on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation • Kathleen Pickering and David Mushinski Part III: Contemporary Valuables and Symbolic Values 10 Inalienable Wealth in North American Households • Eric J. Arnauld, Carolyn Folkman Curasi, and Linda L. Price 11 Virtual Antiquities, Consumption Values, and the Cultural Heritage Economy in a Costa Rican Artisan Community • Jim Weil 12 Women's Fashion Magazines: People, Things, and Values • Brian Moeran 13 Numbered Days, Valued Lives: Statistics, Shopping, Pharmacy, and the Commodification of People • Melanie Rock Index About the Contributors This volume brings together anthropologists and economists to discuss the complex ways in which different cultures imbue material objects with symbvolic qualities whose valur cannot be reduced to material or monetary equivalents