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Value and its vehicles
Journal Title
American Ethnologist
Year (definitive publication)
2026
Language
English
Country
United States of America
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Abstract
Scholars examining precapitalist societies—from Karl Polanyi to Marcel Mauss to Marshall Sahlins and David Graeber—have debunked the economists’ myth of an original barter economy based on tit-for-tat exchange. Demonstrating the precedence of direct social relations in sustaining lives and communities, they have exposed this myth as an attempt to naturalize capitalism, as if the exchange of equivalents and its attendant requisites of competition and egoism were primordial and rooted in human nature.
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Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Anthropology - Social Sciences
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| Funding Reference | Funding Entity |
|---|---|
| 2023.07780.CEECIND | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
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