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Legacies, logics, logistics : essays in the anthropology of the platform economy
- Title
- Legacies, logics, logistics : essays in the anthropology of the platform economy / Jane I. Guyer.
- Author
- Guyer, Jane I.
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- xii, 312 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index.
- Contents
- Foundations -- The themes of legacies, logics, logistics -- "Toiling ingenuity": food regulation in Britain and Nigeria -- Public economic cultures -- "The craving for intelligibility": speech and silence on the economy under structural adjustment and military rule in Nigeria (with Laray Denzer) -- Prophecy and the near future: thoughts on macroeconomic, evangelical, and punctuated time -- From market to platform: shifting analytics for the study of current capitalism -- Cultures of calculation -- The eruption of tradition?: on ordinality and calculation -- Percentages and perchance: archaic forms in the twenty-first century platforms -- Intricacy and impasse: dilemmas of value in soft-currency economies -- Indexing people to money: the fate of "shelter" -- Toward ethnography and the people's economies -- Composites, fictions, and risk: toward an ethnography of price -- Soft currencies, cash economies, new monies: past and present -- Is the "real economy" disaggregating, disappearing, or deviating?
- Call Number
- JFE 16-9509
- ISBN
- 9780226326733
- 022632673X
- 9780226326870
- 022632687X
- LCCN
- 2015017229
- OCLC
- 908660312
- Author
- Guyer, Jane I., author.
- Title
- Legacies, logics, logistics : essays in the anthropology of the platform economy / Jane I. Guyer.
- Publisher
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-9509