Embodying Exchange

Materiality, Morality and Global Commodity Chains in Andean Commerce

Juliane Müller (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

274 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-263-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: The Materiality and Morality of Andean Commerce

Chapter 1. Extra-legal Marketplaces: Past, Present and Future

Chapter 2. Commercial Infrastructure, Spatial Regulation and Situated Economic Ethics

Part II: Traders and Multinationals in La Paz and the Region

Chapter 3. Buyer-Seller-Loyalty and the Limits of Corporate Branding

Chapter 4. Disrupted Cell Phone Supply Chains: Circulatory Authority and Disputes over Ownership

Part III: Embodying Exchange

Chapter 5. Self-Account Trading, Social Interdependencies and Commercial Histories

Chapter 6. The Enmeshment of Commercial and Ritual Cycles: The China Connection of the Fiesta De Jesús Del Gran Poder

Chapter 7. ‘Wealth-in-People’: Gifting and Sharing Amidst Growing Economic Inequality

Conclusion

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.01.2024
Reihe/Serie	The Human Economy
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-80539-263-8 / 1805392638
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-263-7 / 9781805392637
Zustand	Neuware