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Title

  • The real economy : essays in ethnographic theory

Names

  • Guyer, Jane I., editor
  • Neiburg, Federico B., editor

Created / Published

  • Chicago, IL : Hau Books, [2020]

Contents

  • Introduction. The real in the real economy / Federico Neiburg and Jane Guyer. Chapter One. The live act of business and the culture of realization / Fabian Muniesa - - Chapter Two. Deductions and counter-deductions in South Africa / Deborah James - - Chapter Three. Resisting numbers: The favela as an (un)quantifiable reality / Eugénia Motta - - Chapter Four. What is a 'real' transaction in high-frequency trading / Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra - - Chapter Five. Soybean, bricks, dollars, and the reality of money in Argentina / Mariana Luzzi and Ariel Wilkis - - Chapter Six. A political anthropology of finance in cross-border investment in Shanghai / Horacio Ortiz - - Chapter seven. Corporate personhood and the competative relation in antitrust / Gustavo Onto - - Chapter Eight. Making workers real on a South African border farm / Maxim Bolt - - Chapter Nine. How will we pay? Projective fictions and regimes of foresight in US college finance / Caitlin Zaloom -- Chapter Ten. Smuggling realities: On numbers, borders, and performances / Fernando Rabossi. Afterword. The method of the real: What do we intend with ethnographic infrastructure? / Bill Maurer.

Headings

  • -  Economic anthropology
  • -  Economics--Sociological aspects
  • -  Economics

Notes

  • -  Date of publication obtained from publisher website.
  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (x, 299 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GN448

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021758964

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Chicago citation style:

Guyer, Jane I, and Ferico B Neiburg, editor. The Real Economy: Essays in Ethnographic Theory. [Chicago, IL: Hau Books, 2020] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021758964/.

APA citation style:

Guyer, J. I. & Neiburg, F. B., editor. (2020) The Real Economy: Essays in Ethnographic Theory. [Chicago, IL: Hau Books] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021758964/.

MLA citation style:

Guyer, Jane I, and Ferico B Neiburg, editor. The Real Economy: Essays in Ethnographic Theory. [Chicago, IL: Hau Books, 2020] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021758964/>.