On the culture of material value and the cosmography of riches

Herein is a discourse on value and how economics fails as a science thereof by banishing culture to the status of “exogenous factors.” The argument is demonstrated by an ethnographically informed study of the external origins of riches. Among the conclusions: money (“magical property”) as a means ra...

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Autor principal: Sahlins, Marshall
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales 2016
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Acceso en línea:http://revistasacademicas.unsam.edu.ar/index.php/etnocontemp/article/view/396
http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/25008
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Sumario:Herein is a discourse on value and how economics fails as a science thereof by banishing culture to the status of “exogenous factors.” The argument is demonstrated by an ethnographically informed study of the external origins of riches. Among the conclusions: money (“magical property”) as a means rather than the antithesis of extended kinship; scarcity as a function of value rather than the value of scarcity; and other such contradictions of the deceived wisdom.