Anthropologies of value / edited by Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández and Geir Henning Presterudstuen.

Based on papers presented at the 'Knowledge/Culture/Economy conference' held at Western Sydney University, and the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa and New Zealand/Australian Anthropological Society Conference organised by colleagues of the University of Otago held in Queenstown, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The value of everything and the price of nothingness / Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández -- On the capacity to change the structural parameters of value : the sale of one particular Cook Island Tivaivai / Jane Horan -- Value and the art of deception : public morality in a Papua New Guinean Ponzi scheme / John Cox -- Asbin : a 'has been' of Papua New Guinea highlands gift exchange? / Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh -- The value of the Vanua : the nexus of people and land in Fiji's market economy / Geir Henning Preserudstuen -- Natural value : rent-capture and the commodification of a waterfall in Gran Sabana, Venezuela / Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández -- Capitalist ventures or solidarity networks? Self-employment in post-Soviet Cuba / Marina Gold -- The relative value of penguins / Moira White -- Quota systems : repositioning value in New Zealand, Icelandic and Irish fisheries / Fiona McCormack -- Distributions of wealth, distributions of waste : abject capital and accumulation by disposal / David Boarder Giles -- "The university is kind of an impossible place" : universities towards and against capitalism / Fern Thompsett.

An edited collection which contains unusual and global case studies providing a Marxist analysis of the commodification of life.

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