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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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