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In this slim volume, anthropologist Paul Kockelman showcases, reworks, and extends some of the core resources anthropologists and like-minded scholars have developed for thinking about value. Rather than theorize value head on, he offers a careful interpretation of a Mayan text about an offering to a god that lamentably goes awry. Kockelman analyzes the text, its telling, and the conditions of possibility for its original publication. Starting with a relatively simple definition of valueāthat which stands at the intersection of what signs stand for and what agents strive forāhe unfolds, explicates, and experiments with its variations. Contrary to widespread claims in and around the discipline, Kockelman argues that it is not so-called relations, but rather relations between relations, that are at the heart of the interpretive endeavor.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- 1. Nuts to an Anthropological Theory of Value
- 2. A Relation between Agents Mediated by a Relation between Entities
- 3. Saussurean Values
- 4. Inalienable Possessions
- 5. Aesthetic Value, Poetic Function, Equivalence Framing
- 6. Chickens, Machetes, and Chains: Meta-equivalence and the Purification of Value
- 7. Singularities, Replacements, Commodities (and Something Else Entirely)
- 8. The Translation of Equivalence: Value, Sense, Path
- 9. Possible Worlds: From Saussureās Value to Fregeās Sense (and Truth Value)
- 10. Reworded Possibilities: From Imagining Outcomes to Second-Guessing Actions
- 11. The Wording and Worlding of Truth Value
- 12. Commensuration and Comparison
- 13. The Genealogy of Intensity, the Revaluation of Value
- 14. Semiotic Values
- 15. The Regimentation and Internalization of Value
- 16. From Figures to Grounds: Labor Power and Semiotic Potential
- 17. The Commodity Is a Semiotic Process
- 18. Grounding Economic Value and/or Regimenting Price
- 19. A Mayan Ontology of the Anticommodity
- 20. Energy, Work, and Friction
- 21. Conversion, Preservation, and Evil
- 22. Affordances, Instruments, and Actions
- 23. Action, Agency, Excellence, and Existential Values
- 24. From Short-Term to Long-Term Action
- 25. Agency, Personhood, Power
- 26. Credit, Debt, Ownership, and the Personification of Deontic Modality
- 27. Felicity and Felicitousness, Aristotle and Austin
- 28. The Hau, qua Performativity and Inter(im)subjectivity of Economic Rituals
- 29. Renown and Resound: The Care of Self and the Curation of Stories
- 30. Evaluative Standards, Ideals, and Second-Order Desire
- 31. The Story as a Representation of Ideal Actions and/or Ethical Persons
- 32. The Stories We Tell Are (More or Less Equivalent to) Kula Shells
- 33. Meta-ideals, Idols, and/or the Worthiness of Othersā Worlds
- Endnotes