Description
| Product ID: | 9781800732117 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes |
| Authors: | Author: Olivia Ange |
| Page Count: | 236 |
| Subjects: | Social and cultural anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Agricultural and rural economics, Agricultural economics, Argentina |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Drawing on ethnographic data from fairs in the Southern Andes involving highland herders and lowland cultivators, Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andesadvances an anthropology of the practice of barter, contributing to a fuller understanding of how social groups create themselves through material circulation. Despite the pervasiveness of barter across societies, this mode of transaction has largely escaped the anthropologist’s gaze. Drawing on data from fairs in the Argentinean Andes, this book addresses a local modality of barter known as cambio. Bringing out its embeddedness within religious celebrations, it argues that cambio is practiced as a sacrifice to catholic figures and local ancestors, thereby challenging a widespread view of barter as a non-monetary form of commodity exchange. This ethnography of Andean barter considers processes of value creation, both economic and subjective, to further our understanding of how social groups create themselves through economic exchanges. |
| Imprint Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Publisher Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-10-15 |
