Values

Sommerschuh, Julian; Robbins, Joel

doi:10.1017/9781108591249.019

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“…We can classify anthropological accounts of value into three categories: structuralist accounts, action-oriented accounts, and accounts that attempt to bridge these structuralist and action-oriented accounts (Sommerschuh & Robbins, 2016). In a nutshell, structuralist accounts propose that values are embedded in mental structures and actionoriented accounts suggest that value must be continually produced by human activity, like rituals or exchanging goods.…”

Section: Value In Anthropologymentioning

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Anthropology and Value

Steinert

2023

Interdisciplinary Value Theory

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Anthropological theories of value highlight the cultural processes responsible for value creation, re-creation, and transmission. This chapter provides an overview of the most crucial value theories in anthropology. First, It introduces early anthropological accounts of value, like Kluckhohn's and Strodtbeck's theory of value orientations, which was an attempt to provide a tool for cross-cultural comparison. The chapter also outlines the structuralist approach to value, specifically Dumont's influential account, where values are part of a hierarchical meaning system. The chapter then introduces so-called action-oriented approaches to value (Munn, Turner, Graeber). Action-oriented accounts focus on how humans actively create and reproduce values in a cultural system of meaning into which value actions are embedded. Finally, the chapter also briefly considers anthropological ideas about value change.

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Section: Value In Anthropologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Anthropology and Value

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2023

Interdisciplinary Value Theory

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Values

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