Kenneth McGill – författare

This book describes economic value as a representational phenomenon and considers what is involved when people represent value to themselves and to others. It provides an original and thorough account of value from a pragmatic and interactionist perspective.McGill uses Peircian semiosis and other theoretical tools from linguistic anthropology in order to study economic value. He argues that economic laws are realized in situated interaction as Peircian legisigns and the situated, indexical features of exchange are further described in relation to these laws as legisigns. Such an approach is shown to have implications for the formation of interests and ideology, the reification of labor and the instantiation of markets through habit.Offering some innovative tools for theorizing economic value in a new era, this volume will be of interest to anthropologists, linguists and other scholars concerned with language, semiotics, and political economy.

This book describes economic value as a representational phenomenon and considers what is involved when people represent value to themselves and to others. It provides an original and thorough account of value from a pragmatic and interactionist perspective.McGill uses Peircian semiosis and other theoretical tools from linguistic anthropology in order to study economic value. He argues that economic laws are realized in situated interaction as Peircian legisigns and the situated, indexical features of exchange are further described in relation to these laws as legisigns. Such an approach is shown to have implications for the formation of interests and ideology, the reification of labor and the instantiation of markets through habit.Offering some innovative tools for theorizing economic value in a new era, this volume will be of interest to anthropologists, linguists and other scholars concerned with language, semiotics, and political economy.

This book describes economic value as a representational phenomenon and considers what is involved when people represent value to themselves and to others. It provides an original and thorough account of value from a pragmatic and interactionist perspective.McGill uses Peircian semiosis and other theoretical tools from linguistic anthropology in order to study economic value. He argues that economic laws are realized in situated interaction as Peircian legisigns and the situated, indexical features of exchange are further described in relation to these laws as legisigns. Such an approach is shown to have implications for the formation of interests and ideology, the reification of labor and the instantiation of markets through habit.Offering some innovative tools for theorizing economic value in a new era, this volume will be of interest to anthropologists, linguists and other scholars concerned with language, semiotics, and political economy.

Inequality is currently gaining considerable attention in academic, policy, and media circles. From Thomas Piketty to Robert Putnam, there is no shortage of economic, sociological, or political analyses. But what does anthropology, with its focus on the qualitative character of relationships between people, have to offer? Drawing on current scholarship and illustrative ethnographic case studies, McGill argues that anthropology is particularly well suited to interrogating global inequality, not just within nations, but across nations as well.Brief, accessibly written, and peppered with vivid ethnographic examples that bring contemporary research to life, Global Inequality is an introduction to the topic from a unique and important perspective.

Inequality is currently gaining considerable attention in academic, policy, and media circles. From Thomas Piketty to Robert Putnam, there is no shortage of economic, sociological, or political analyses. But what does anthropology, with its focus on the qualitative character of relationships between people, have to offer? Drawing on current scholarship and illustrative ethnographic case studies, McGill argues that anthropology is particularly well suited to interrogating global inequality, not just within nations, but across nations as well.Brief, accessibly written, and peppered with vivid ethnographic examples that bring contemporary research to life, Global Inequality is an introduction to the topic from a unique and important perspective.