Value and Worthlessness: The Rise of the Populist Right and Other Disruptions in the Anthropology of Capitalism

Contents
Illustrations
Preface: Hidden History and the Anthropologist
Acknowledgments
Part I — Foundations
Introduction — Webs of Life versus Webs of Meaning: Or How I Became a Marxist Anthropologist
Chapter 1 — No Outside? Then What? For a Dialectical Value Regime
Part II — Living Labor, Value, and Worthlessness
Chapter 2 — “Worthless Poles” and Other Postsocialist Devaluations: Conversations with a Polish Populist
Chapter 3 — “It is My History, and It is Worthless”: Gender and the Making of Philipsism, the Netherlands
Chapter 4 — Regimes of Value and Worthlessness: Two Stories and a Marxian Reflection
Part III — The Non-Surprise of the Populist Right
Chapter 5 — Theory from the East: Class without Class and the Making of the Illiberal Right in Eastern Europe
Chapter 6 — Double Deviations: The Making of the Populist Right in the Global North
Part IV — Global Middle-Classness: Living and Dreaming
Chapter 7— “Scraps from the Bourgeois Kitchen”: In the Romanian Bubble of Outsourced Creativity
Chapter 8 — The “Global Middle Class”: A Seductive Empty Signifier
Part V — Finance and Hegemonic Decline
Chapter 9 — Financialization and the Capitalist Moment: Marx versus Weber in the Anthropology of Global Systems
Chapter 10 — Two Theories of Money: A Historical Anthropology of the State–Finance Nexus for Present Purposes
Part VI — Polemics for a Reason
Chapter 11 — Trotsky over Mauss: Anthropological Theory and the Centennial of the Russian Revolution
Chapter 12 — The Labor Theory of Value and the Value Theory of Labor
Epilogue: Why I Will Not Make It as a Moral Anthropologist
Index
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