Embodying Exchange

Materiality, Morality and Global Commodity Chains in Andean Commerce

AvJuliane Müller

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Addressing the infrastructural, social and legal complexities of a global commodity chain, this book uses an ethnographic analysis of the encounter between multinational corporations and popular traders in the Bolivian Andes. It offers a situated account of the everyday work of chain (un)making, and practices of translation, accommodation and contention. It highlights traders’ collective action, understanding of economic concepts and regulatory principles, and traces the circulation of goods and money beyond market exchange. All in all, it aims to comprehend the reproduction of the native trading system amid global connections, and to humanize our understanding of the economy by grounding it in everyday life, bottom-up socio-material infrastructures and morality.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:501 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Human Economy
Antal sidor:274
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781805392637

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Mer om författaren

Juliane Müller is Professor of Social Anthropology (Serra Húnter Programme) at the University of Barcelona. This is her fourth monograph, the first in English.

Recensioner i media

“The main strength of the book is its detailed description of interactions with multinational electronics companies who are rendered dependent on the powerful traders of Huyustus … one of the most exciting aspects of this book was that it is based on long-term and multi-site fieldwork.” • Kate Maclean, University College London“It is a highly interesting book based on a well-researched phenomenon. It analyzes a relevant topic that hasn't been investigated so far: the commercial link between technology multinationals and 'popular' markets.” • Matías Dewey, University of St. Gallen

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: The Materiality and Morality of Andean CommerceChapter 1. Extra-legal Marketplaces: Past, Present and FutureChapter 2. Commercial Infrastructure, Spatial Regulation and Situated Economic EthicsPart II: Traders and Multinationals in La Paz and the RegionChapter 3. Buyer-Seller-Loyalty and the Limits of Corporate BrandingChapter 4. Disrupted Cell Phone Supply Chains: Circulatory Authority and Disputes over OwnershipPart III: Embodying ExchangeChapter 5. Self-Account Trading, Social Interdependencies and Commercial HistoriesChapter 6. The Enmeshment of Commercial and Ritual Cycles: The China Connection of the Fiesta De Jesús Del Gran PoderChapter 7. ‘Wealth-in-People’: Gifting and Sharing Amidst Growing Economic InequalityConclusionReferencesIndex