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Legacies, logics, logistics : essays in the anthropology of the platform economy / Jane Guyer.

Penn Museum Library GN448.2 .G89 2016
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Guyer, Jane I., author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Economic anthropology.
Economics--History--21st century.
Economics.
Economic anthropology--Africa.
History.
Africa--Economic conditions--1960-.
Africa.
Economic conditions.
Economic history.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
pages ; cm
Place of Publication:
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Contents:
Foundations
The themes of legacies, logics, logistics
"Toiling ingenuity": food regulation in Britain and Nigeria
Public economic cultures
"The craving for intelligibility": speech and silence on the economy under structural adjustment and military rule in Nigeria (with Laray Denzer)
Prophecy and the near future: thoughts on macroeconomic, evangelical, and punctuated time
From market to platform: shifting analytics for the study of current capitalism
Cultures of calculation
The eruption of tradition?: on ordinality and calculation
Percentages and perchance: archaic forms in the twenty-first century platforms
Intricacy and impasse: dilemmas of value in soft-currency economies
Indexing people to money: the fate of "shelter"
Toward ethnography and the people's economies
Composites, fictions, and risk: toward an ethnography of price
Soft currencies, cash economies, new monies: past and present
Is the "real economy" disaggregating, disappearing, or deviating?
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780226326733
022632673X
9780226326870
022632687X
OCLC:
908660312

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