154 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
154 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book describes economic value as a representational phenomenon and considers what is involved when people represent value to themselves and to others. It provides an original and thorough account of value from a pragmatic and interactionist perspective.
McGill uses Peircian semiosis and other theoretical tools from linguistic anthropology in order to study economic value. He argues that... Read more
0. Introduction 1. Peircean Categories 2. Value as Indexical Object 3. Money, Value and Meaning 4. Economic Laws and Semiotic Function 5. The Semiotics of Racial Capitalism 6. Marx’s Law of Value: A Pragmatic Reconstruction 7. Habits, Laws and Materiality 8. State and Social Text 9. Appendix. Saussurean Approaches to Economic Value
Biography
Kenneth McGill is Professor of Anthropology at Southern Connecticut State University, USA.
