Value

Karen Sykes

doi:10.1093/OBO/9780199766567-0138

Value

Karen Sykes

Social Anthropology

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The anthropology of value differs from its study in economics and philosophy. It can be said that these disciplines compete to create universal theories of value that exclude or reconcile contradictory evidence to them. By contrast, the anthropologist’s aim is to understand value in its many particular forms, as grounded in discrete places and times.....

Original language	English
Journal	Oxford On-Line Bibliographies
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199766567-0138
Publication status	Published - 16 Sept 2016

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The Domestic Moral Economy: An ethnographic study of values in the Asia-Pacific Region
Sykes, K. (PI) & Gregory, C. (CoI)
1/10/10 → 31/03/15
Project: Research

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The Domestic Moral Economy: An ethnographic study of values in the Asia-Pacific Region

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