Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction
Author: John L. Comaroff
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Max Gluckman memorial lecture, 1998.
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Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism
Author: Jean Comaroff
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2001-07-05
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780822327158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVA special issue of PUBLIC CULTURE, this collection of essays forms an empirically grounded, conceptual discussion that posits global millennial capitalism as a historical formation./div
From the Margins
Author: Brian Keith Axel
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2002-06-07
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780822328889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVState-of-the-art volume by the major voices in historical anthropology./div
Predatory Economies
Author: Amy Penfield
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2023-04-18
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1477327088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the modes of predation used by and against the Sanema people of Venezuela.
Violent Becomings
Author: Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2016-08
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1785332368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKViolent Becomings sheds light on violence in the periods of colonial and postcolonial state formation by conceptualizing the state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously evolving and violently challenged mode of social ordering.
Selling the Sacred
Author: Mara Einstein
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-03-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1003837719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere’s religion in my marketing! There’s marketing in my religion! Selling the Sacred explores the religio-cultural and media implications of a two-sided phenomenon: marketing religion as a product and marketing products as religion. What do various forms of religion/marketing collaboration look like in the twenty-first century, and what does this tell us about American culture and society? Social and technological changes rapidly and continuously reframe religious and marketing landscapes. Crossfit is a “cult.” Televangelists use psychographics and data marketing. QAnon is a religion and big business. These are some of the examples highlighted in this collection, which engages themes related to capitalist narratives, issues related to gender and race, and the intersection of religion, politics, and marketing, among other key issues. The innovative contributors examine the phenomenon of selling the sacred, providing a better understanding of how marketing tactics, married with religious content, influence our thinking and everyday lives. These scholars bring to light how political, economic, and ideological agendas infuse the construction and presentation of the “sacred,” via more traditional religious institutions or consumer-product marketing. By examining religion and marketing broadly, this book offers engaging tools to recognize and unpack what gets sold as “sacred,” what’s at stake, and the consequences. A go-to resource for those working in marketing studies, religious studies, and media studies, Selling the Sacred is also a must-read for religious and marketing professionals.
The Devil's Riches
Author: Jared Poley
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2016-02-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1785331272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years. This multilayered account offers a fresh take on an old topic, arguing that greed was experienced as a moral phenomenon and deployed to make sense of an unjust world. Focusing specifically on the interrelated themes of religion, economics, and health—each of which sought to study and channel the power of financial desire—Jared Poley shows how evolving ideas about greed became formative elements of the modern experience.
Violent Capitalism and Hybrid Identity in the Eastern Congo
Author: Timothy Raeymaekers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-12-18
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1107082072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyses the radical political transformation of eastern Congo through the lens of cross-border risk management.
The Politics of Precarity
Author: Gediminas Lesutis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-30
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1000521109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on critical theory and ethnographic research, this book explores how intensifying geographies of extractive capitalism shape human lives and transformative politics in marginal areas of the global economy. Engaging the work of Judith Butler, Henri Lefebvre, and Jacques Rancière with ethnographic research on social and political effects of mining-induced dispossession in Mozambique, in the book, Lesutis theorises how precarity unfolds as a spatially constituted condition of everyday life given over to the violence of capital. Going beyond labour relations, or governance of life in liberal democracies, that are typically explored in the literature on precarity, the book shows how dispossessed people are subjected to structural, symbolic, and direct modalities of violence; this simultaneously constitutes their suffering and ceaseless desire, however implausible, to be included into abstract space of extractivism. As a result, despite the multifarious violence that it engenders, extractive capital accumulation is sustained even in the margins, historically excluded from contingently lived imaginaries of a "good life" promised by capitalism. Presenting this theorisation of precarity as a framework on, and a critique of, the contemporary politics of (un)liveability, the book speaks to key debates about precarity, dispossession, resistance, extractivism, and development in several disciplines, especially political geography, IPE, global politics, and critical theory. It will also be of interest to scholars in development studies, critical political economy, and African politics.
A Handbook of Economic Anthropology, Second Edition
Author: James G. Carrier
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 681
ISBN-13: 1849809291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcclaim for the first edition: 'The volume is a remarkable contribution to economic anthropology and will no doubt be a fundamental tool for students, scholars, and experts in the sub-discipline.' – Mao Mollona, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 'This excellent overview would serve as an excellent text for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level classroom use. . . Because of the clarity, conciseness, and accessibility of the writing, the chapters in this volume likely will be often cited and recommended to those who want the alternative and frequently culturally comparative perspective on economic topics that anthropology provides. Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries.' – K.F. Rambo, Choice The first edition of this unique Handbook was praised for its substantial and invaluable summary discussions of work by anthropologists on economic processes and issues, on the relationship between economic and non-economic areas of life and on the conceptual orientations that are important among economic anthropologists. This thoroughly revised edition brings those discussions up to date, and includes an important new section exploring ways that leading anthropologists have approached the current economic crisis. Its scope and accessibility make it useful both to those who are interested in a particular topic and to those who want to see the breadth and fruitfulness of an anthropological study of economy. This comprehensive Handbook will strongly appeal to undergraduate and post-graduate students in anthropology, economists interested in social and cultural dimensions of economic life, and alternative approaches to economic life, political economists, political scientists and historians.
