Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes

It provides a fine grained ethnography of barter interactions and regimes of value.


It explores the social performativity of barter, stressing the role of instrumental transactions in the fabric of society.


It demonstrates the usefulness of the concept of barter to anthropological theories of economic exchanges - usually focussed on gifts and commodities.


It conceptually elaborates the notion of ceremonial exchanges.

About the author

Olivia Angé is Associate Professor in Economic Anthropology at the Université libre de Bruxelles. She specializes in the study of material circulation, agriculture, and value creation in the Andes. Since 2005, she has conducted extensive fieldwork on barter fairs in the Argentinean cordillera. She is the co-author (with David Berliner) of Anthropology and Nostalgia (Berghahn, 2014).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Olivia Ange, Olivia Angé, Olivia Ange Ange
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781800732117
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-211-7
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Argentina, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and rural economics, Anthropology (General); Political and Economic Anthropology