Towards an Anthropology of Wealth: Imagination, Substance, Value

ISBN-13: 9780367180072 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 138 str.

Theodoros Rakopoulos; Knut Rio

Opis

In redefining the concept of wealth, this book views wealth primarily as a question of reproduction, relational flows and life vitality, rather than merely ‘accumulated assets’. It outlines wealth as a triangular phenomenon between capital, the commons, and power. This book was originally published as a special issue of History & Anthropology.

Spis treści

1. Introduction to an anthropology of wealth  2. Entropy, alchemy and negative pigs: Obviating the matter of wealth  3. An economic theology of wealth: A perspective from central India  4. Commonwealth, inalienable possessions, and the res publica: The anthropology of aristocratic order and the landed estate  5. Commonwealth: On democracy and dispossession in Italy  6. Where do we go when we follow the money? The political-economic construction of Antimafia investigators in Western Sicily  7. Show me the money: Conspiracy theories and distant wealth  8. Tolai tabu as wealth and money: A shifting and unstable distinction