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Despite the pervasiveness of barter across societies, this mode of
transaction has largely escaped the anthropologist's gaze. Drawing
on data from fairs in the Argentinean Andes, this book addresses a
local modality of barter known as cambio. Bringing out its
embeddedness within religious celebrations, it argues that cambio
is practiced as a sacrifice to catholic figures and local
ancestors, thereby challenging a widespread view of barter as a
non-monetary form of commodity exchange. This ethnography of Andean
barter considers processes of value creation, both economic and
subjective, to further our understanding of how social groups
create themselves through economic exchanges.
Nostalgia is intimately connected to the history of the social
sciences in general and anthropology in particular, though finely
grained ethnographies of nostalgia and loss are still scarce.
Today, anthropologists have realized that nostalgia constitutes a
fascinating object of study for exploring contemporary issues of
the formation of identity in politics and history. Contributors to
this volume consider the fabric of nostalgia in the fields of
heritage and tourism, exile and diasporas, postcolonialism and
postsocialism, business and economic exchange, social, ecological
and religious movements, and nation building. They contribute to a
better understanding of how individuals and groups commemorate
their pasts, and how nostalgia plays a role in the process of
remembering.
Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich
ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human
centered approach does not account for contemporary longings
triggered by ecosystem upheavals. In this time of climate change,
this book explores how nostalgia for fading ecologies unfolds into
the interstitial spaces between the biological, the political and
the social, regret and hope, the past, the present and the future.
Despite the pervasiveness of barter across societies, this mode of
transaction has largely escaped the anthropologist's gaze. Drawing
on data from fairs in the Argentinean Andes, this book addresses a
local modality of barter known as cambio. Bringing out its
embeddedness within religious celebrations, it argues that cambio
is practiced as a sacrifice to catholic figures and local
ancestors, thereby challenging a widespread view of barter as a
non-monetary form of commodity exchange. This ethnography of Andean
barter considers processes of value creation, both economic and
subjective, to further our understanding of how social groups
create themselves through economic exchanges.
Nostalgia is intimately connected to the history of the social
sciences in general and anthropology in particular, though finely
grained ethnographies of nostalgia and loss are still scarce.
Today, anthropologists have realized that nostalgia constitutes a
fascinating object of study for exploring contemporary issues of
the formation of identity in politics and history. Contributors to
this volume consider the fabric of nostalgia in the fields of
heritage and tourism, exile and diasporas, postcolonialism and
postsocialism, business and economic exchange, social, ecological
and religious movements, and nation building. They contribute to a
better understanding of how individuals and groups commemorate
their pasts, and how nostalgia plays a role in the process of
remembering.
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