Anthropologies of Value

Luis F. Angosto-Ferrandez teaches anthropology and Latin American studies at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Venezuela Reframed: Bolivarianism, Indigenous Peoples and Socialisms of the 21st Century (Zed Books, 2015) and editor of Democracy, Revolution and Geopolitics in Latin America: Venezuela and the International Politics of Discontent (Routledge 2014).Geir Henning Presterudstuen is a lecturer in anthropology at Western Sydney University. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in Fiji since 2009 and his main research interests, on which he has published widely, include the intersections between social categories such as gender, ethnicity, class and sexuality in context of the modern market economy. He is the co-editor of Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

• List of FiguresSeries PrefaceAcknowledgementsThe Value of Everything and the Price of Nothingness by Luis Fernando Angosto-FerrándezPart I: Emerging Value in the 'Global South' 1. On the Capacity to Change the Structural Parameters of Value: The Sale of One Particular Cook Island Tivaivai - Jane Horan2. Value and the Art of Deception: Public Morality in a Papua New Guinean Ponzi Scheme - John Cox3. Asbin: A 'Has-Been' of Papua New Guinea Highlands Gift Exchange? - Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh4. The Value of the Vanua: The Nexus of People and Land in Fiji’s Market Economy - Geir Henning Presterudstuen5. Natural Value: Rent-Capture and the Commodification of a Waterfall in Gran Sabana, Venezuela - Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández6. Capitalist Ventures or Solidarity Networks? Self-Employment in Post-Soviet Cuba - Marina GoldPart II: Tribulating Values in the 'Global North'7. The Relative Value of Penguins - Moira White8. Quota Systems: Repositioning Value in New Zealand, Icelandic and Irish Fisheries - Fiona McCormack9. Distributions of Wealth, Distributions of Waste: Abject Capital and Accumulation by Disposal - David Boarder Giles10. ‘The University is Kind of an Impossible Place’: Universities Towards and Against Capitalism - Fern ThompsettNotes on ContributorsIndex

'This collection of ethnographically-informed essays from around the world turns the abstractions of globalisation theory upside down and provides new insights into the values that inform economic transactions in the world today. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the value question in the 21st Century'