2017
DOI: 10.1590/1678-49442017v23n3p545
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Dinheiro, Tecidos, Rum E a Estética Do Eclipsamento Em Saamaka

Abstract: A divisão entre dádivas e mercadorias está entre os pares de oposição que mais renderam páginas de discussão na antropologia. Já há algumas décadas, contribuições sobre o tema (Gregory 2015;Strathern 2006;Graeber 2001) marcam com veemência o caráter ficcional (ou analítico) da divisão, o que implica compreender que a oposição é um artifício do antropólogo, que imagina uma linguagem conceitual de escopo provisório, mas que serve a propósitos teóricos e políticos pertinentes nos limites da trama e coerentes com … Show more

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“…As "levelers" of traditional values that eat through relations of trust like a caustic "acid," baccoo are imbued with many of the characteristics of money attested by the classic social theories of Marx (1976) and Simmel (2004), among others. Because most of our interlocutors understand money as a challengingly foreign substance (Pires 2017), bakru and money share occult qualities that comparably confound easy explanations of how they work. In this way, gaps in people's knowledge about what money and bakuu really do invite speculations that concurrently testify to their power and insulate their systematic questioning.…”
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“…As "levelers" of traditional values that eat through relations of trust like a caustic "acid," baccoo are imbued with many of the characteristics of money attested by the classic social theories of Marx (1976) and Simmel (2004), among others. Because most of our interlocutors understand money as a challengingly foreign substance (Pires 2017), bakru and money share occult qualities that comparably confound easy explanations of how they work. In this way, gaps in people's knowledge about what money and bakuu really do invite speculations that concurrently testify to their power and insulate their systematic questioning.…”
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confidence: 99%