Kinds of Value: An Experiment in Modal Anthropology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780996635585)

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 value--that which stands at the intersection of what signs stand for and what agents strive for--he 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.

Author: Paul Kockelman
ISBN-10: 0996635580
ISBN-13: 9780996635585
Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2020
Pages: 72
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.00h x 4.40w x 0.40d