Value and Worthlessness

Value and Worthlessness

The Rise of the Populist Right and Other Disruptions in the Anthropology of Capitalism

Kalb, Don

Berghahn Books

01/2025

400

Dura

9781805398226

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Part I: Foundations



Introduction: Webs of Life versus Webs of Meaning: Or how I Became a Marxist Anthropologist



Chapter 1. No Outside? Then What? For a Dialectical "Value Regime"



Part II: Living Labor, Value, and Worthlessness



Chapter 2. "Worthless Poles" and other Postsocialist Devaluations: Conversations with a Polish Populist

Chapter 3. "It is my history and it is worthless": Gender and the Making of Philipsism, The Netherlands

Chapter 4. Regimes of Value and Worthlessness: Two Stories and a Marxian Reflection



Part III: The Non-Surprise of the Populist Right



Chapter 5. Theory from the East: Class without Class and the Making of the Illiberal Right in Eastern Europe

Chapter 6. Double Devaluations: The Making of the Populist Right in the Global North



Part IV: Global Middle Classness: Living and Dreaming



Chapter 7. "Scraps from the Bourgeois Kitchen": In the Romanian Bubble of Outsourced Creativity

Chapter 8. The "Global Middle Class": A Seductive but Empty Signifier



Part V: Finance and Hegemonic Decline



Chapter 9. Financialization and the Capitalist Moment: Marx versus Weber in the Anthropology of Global System

Chapter 10. Two Theories of Money: A Historical Anthropology of the State-Finance Nexus for Present Purposes



Part VI. Polemics for a Reason



Chapter 11. Trotsky over Mauss: Anthropological Theory and the Centennial of the Russian Revolution

Chapter 12. The Labor Theory of Value and the Value Theory of Labor



Epilogue: Why I Will not Make it as a Moral Anthropologist



Index
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Political and Economic Anthropology