The False Coin of Our Own Dreams, or the Problem of the Fetish, IIIb

Graeber, David

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“…Although some certainly do appear to be of the same general size in burial assemblages, there was not one general standardized size throughout the Maya lowlands. Proskouriakoff (1974:18) notes that “[j]ade beads do not seem to have been standardized in size, as we might expect if they were used as money, but, on the other hand, the fact that matched assemblages are very rare suggest that they were often bought and circulated singly and were not always manufactured for specific use.” We can see here that Proskouriakoff questions the idea of true fungibility of jade beads, but also does not support the idea that they were specific types of objects in Graeber's (2001) terms, as earflares and plaques may have been. Kovacevich (2007) has argued elsewhere that spherical jade beads at Cancuen were different in size between elite and commoner contexts and that this relationship was statistically significant.…”

Section: Commodity Candidacy Of Maya Jadescontrasting

confidence: 71%

“…Appadurai (1986:11) argued that there should be no such distinction, that anything that is intended for exchange is a commodity, and that we should look at the life history of objects to see that a commodity is not a certain type of thing, but a phase in the life of a thing (Appadurai 1986:17). Graeber (2001:33) has critiqued both Appadurai and Kopytoff, as they emphasize the social life of the thing in its importance to value but also define their terms in such a way that it becomes difficult to consider that an object's biography could itself contribute to its value (although cf. Appadurai 1994).…”

Section: Maya Jades As Commodities and Giftsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Especially important is looking at objects that could transcend different spheres of value. By doing this, we can understand exactly what can and what could, or what should or should not, be measured and compared in an economic system (Graeber 2001:223). This allows us to determine the object's ability to be used in an open versus a closed exchange.…”

Section: Maya Jades As Commodities and Giftsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Fifty Shades of Green: Interpreting Maya Jade Production, Circulation, Consumption, and Value

Kovacevich

Callaghan

2018

Ancient Mesoam

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This work addresses varying interpretations of the production, circulation, and consumption of jades in the Maya area from the Preclassic through the Postclassic periods (600 b.c.–a.d. 1697). Traditionally, exchange of jades has been seen as a dyadic relationship between elites (gifting and tribute). Some have argued for gradations of value in the circulation of jades, which probably circulated in both elite and commoner spheres. More recent research argues that jade blanks were commoditized because they could be standardized. In this article, we evaluate this last claim, concluding there is no evidence for standardization and commodification of jade blanks, and a dearth of jade blanks in archaeological deposits. We critique the expectation that commodities in some nonindustrial economies should be standardized, and make suggestions about what kinds of jade objects, if any, have greatest potential to become commodities in the Maya area.

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Section: Maya Jades As Commodities and Giftsmentioning

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Fifty Shades of Green: Interpreting Maya Jade Production, Circulation, Consumption, and Value

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Callaghan

2018

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“…Value is the social construction of what is good, proper, or desirable and is defined by and dependent on the community in question. 26 For the community using Tidepool, a non-profit open source data platform that collects data from individuals living with type 1 diabetes, the value of personal data lies in the potential to enhance diabetes management and therefore improve the health of individuals. In the Our Data Helps community, personal data took on a twofold valorisation.…”

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Experiences of Donating Personal Data to Mental Health Research: An Explorative Anthropological Study

Sleigh

2018

Biomed Inform Insights

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Technological developments, such as the advent of social networking sites, apps, and tracking ‘cookies’, enable the generation and collection of unprecedented quantities of rich personal and behavioural data, opening up a vast new resource for mental health research. Despite these non-traditional health-related data already forming a vital foundation of many new research avenues, little analysis has been done focusing on the experiences, motivations, and concerns of the individuals already engaged in data sharing and donation practices. This explorative study aims to investigate the experiences of individuals voluntarily donating their data to mental health research, specifically through the open data initiative OurDataHelps.org, which aims to develop effective suicide prevention tools. Qualitative semi-structured interviews and participant observation were used on a small sample of participants, yielding 3 key findings: (1) The relationship between participants and their data traces fluctuated between unconscious agency and hyper awareness through curatorship. (2) Despite having concerns about privacy and surveillance, participants were driven by altruistic motivations to engage with health researchers valued by their community, in the hope that their personal information could be of some benefit to future avenues of research. (3) In most cases represented in this sample group, motivation was found to stem from personal experiences with mental health, suicide, and loss. In the suicide survivor community, the experience of data donation is often valued as a method for emotional processing of a loss, connecting with the experiences of others, or as a way of regaining a sense of ‘purpose’. By understanding the motivations of individual participants, future projects can ensure that data donation processes are a positive experience and ultimately, increase and sustain the huge potential resources for health researchers worldwide.

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“…For Munn, value is not just another word for shared importance, nor does it denote congealed labour, as in Marx's famous formulation. Rather, Munn defines value as the potential of actions to produce (positive or negative) transformations in the world (see also Graeber 2001: 43–7). Embodied qualities then evidence those socially recognized potentials (an example in her ethnographic context of Gawa is lightness indexing positive potential and heaviness indexing negative potential).…”

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Performing excess: urban ceremony and the semiotics of precarity in Guinea-Conakry

Cohen¹

2019

Africa

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In Conakry, the capital city of the Republic of Guinea, dance ceremonies called sabars, derived from a Senegalese genre of the same name, have become extremely popular for wedding celebrations. Sabar's rise in Guinea coincided with the liberalization of the country's economy and the opening of national borders in the wake of state socialism (1958–84) – events that have produced profound uncertainty for average citizens. This article explores sabar as a practice that grapples affectively with the social and economic changes neoliberal reform has engendered within Guinea. Sabar ceremonies are characterized by instantiations of excess, including hypersexualized dancing, electric amplification and theatrical displays of opulence. By examining excess as an ‘emergent’ quality whose cultural value is undetermined, the article demonstrates how dancers participate in the active constitution and questioning of collective value in Conakry, and how embodiment is central to an anthropology of precarity.

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The False Coin of Our Own Dreams, or the Problem of the Fetish, IIIb

Cited by 153 publications

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Fifty Shades of Green: Interpreting Maya Jade Production, Circulation, Consumption, and Value

Fifty Shades of Green: Interpreting Maya Jade Production, Circulation, Consumption, and Value

Experiences of Donating Personal Data to Mental Health Research: An Explorative Anthropological Study

Performing excess: urban ceremony and the semiotics of precarity in Guinea-Conakry

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