HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory (Special Section) – Volume 8, Issue 3 (Winter 2018): Invisible Hands of Life: Alternate Modes of Prosperity
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School of Oriental and African Studies
: A - 22A Anthropology
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies : A - 22A Anthropology
- Output identifier
- 25875
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Additional information
- Invisible Hands of Life: Alternate Modes of Prosperity. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory (Special Section) was in the making for more than five years, its beginnings associated with a panel discussion entitled Invisible hands: Alternate modes of prosperity, wealth, and well-being, and held at the Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists at the University of Edinburgh in 2014. The conference theme invited participants to reflect on anthropology’s intimate relation to the Enlightenment, especially to Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, among whom Adam Smith is one of the most prominent. As well as breaking new conceptual ground in the anthropology, through proposing prosperity rather than production and/or consumption as the focus of investigations, it contributes to important inter-disciplinary debates regarding theories of value production, and stages critical dialogues with key political economists, Karl Marx included, and philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche. The collection features six original research articles the majority of which are written by young scholars at the beginning of their careers. Due to their relative inexperience, the contributors required extensive and constant support by the editors throughout the long process of preparing their research for publication. The tasks of defining the topic, writing the introductory piece, and co-editing the collection were shared 90:10 by Retsikas and Marden. Retsikas was 100% responsible for the chapter entitled Multiplication through Division which grew out of an ESRC-funded project he carried out in Java, Indonesia from 2011 to 2013.
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