Value and Worthlessness: The Rise of the Populist Right and Other Disruptions in the Anthropology of Capitalism

by Don Kalb

Advocating for an interdisciplinary Marxist anthropology of the present, this book uses historical and global anthropology to engage with history, theory, unevenness, and comparison, while using "global ethnography" and "hidden histories" as the keys to social discovery. Kalb's anthropology of value and worthlessness lays bare the logics that currently produce right wing, populist, and nationalist outcomes. The book also battles with the "anthropology...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1805398229
• ISBN13: 9781805398226
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 400 Pages