Kinds of value : an experiment in modal anthropology / Paul Kockelman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kockelman, Paul, author.

Series:

Paradigm (Chicago, Ill.) ; 58.

Paradigm ; 58

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social values.

Value--Sociological aspects.

Value.

Value--Philosophy.

Abstraction.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 105 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : Prickly Paradigm Press, [2020]

Biography/History:

Paul Kockelman, Professor of Anthropology at Yale University.

Summary:

"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."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Nuts to an Anthropological Theory of Value

2. A Relation between Agents Mediated by a Relation between Entities

3. Saussurean Values

4. Inalienable Possessions

5. Aesthetic Value, Poetic Function, Equivalence Framing

6. Chickens, Machetes, and Chains: Meta-equivalence and the Purification of Value

7. Singularities, Replacements, Commodities (and Something Else Entirely)

8. The Translation of Equivalence: Value, Sense, Path

9. Possible Worlds: From Saussure's Value to Frege's Sense (and Truth Value)

10. Reworded Possibilities: From Imagining Outcomes to Second-Guessing Actions

11. The Wording and Worlding of Truth Value

12. Commensuration and Comparison

13. The Genealogy of Intensity, the Revaluation of Value

14. Semiotic Values

15. The Regimentation and Internalization of Value

16. From Figures to Grounds: Labor Power and Semiotic Potential

17. The Commodity Is a Semiotic Process

18. Grounding Economic Value and/or Regimenting Price

19. A Mayan Ontology of the Anticommodity

20. Energy, Work, and Friction

21. Conversion, Preservation, and Evil

22. Affordances, Instruments, and Actions

23. Action, Agency, Excellence, and Existential Values

24. From Short-Term to Long-Term Action

25. Agency, Personhood, Power

26. Credit, Debt, Ownership, and the Personification of Deontic Modality

27. Felicity and Felicitousness, Aristotle and Austin

28. The Hau, qua Performativity and Inter(im)subjectivity of Economic Rituals

29. Renown and Resound: The Care of Self and the Curation of Stories

30. Evaluative Standards, Ideals, and Second-Order Desire

31. The Story as a Representation of Ideal Actions and/or Ethical Persons

32. The Stories We Tell Are (More or Less Equivalent to) Kula Shells

33. Meta-ideals, Idols, and/or the Worthiness of Others' Worlds.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780996635585

0996635580

OCLC:

1113476849