Economic AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-06-30Epub Date: 2025-06-12DOI: 10.1002/sea2.70007
Nick Seaver, Alex Blanchette, Marcel LaFlamme
{"title":"Work and the Data Economy: On Abstraction and Contempt","authors":"Nick Seaver, Alex Blanchette, Marcel LaFlamme","doi":"10.1002/sea2.70007","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The 2024 joint meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology and the Society for the Anthropology of Work took the theme of “Work and the Data Economy.” The articles in this special issue, first presented at the meeting, explore the datafication of ethnographic settings not conventionally associated with high-tech or knowledge work. In this introduction, we argue that datafication is a key technology of abstraction that aggregates and transforms the contextual particularities of the world into countable, computationally tractable representations. These transformations are often explicitly or implicitly contemptuous of the work practices they abstract from. Reading the issue through the themes of abstraction and contempt, we highlight the emerging shifts in the organization, valuation, and control of labor that the articles collectively reveal.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"12 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144290136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-07Epub Date: 2024-04-12DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12313
Santiago Ripoll
{"title":"The moral economy of land markets in the Nicaragua highlands","authors":"Santiago Ripoll","doi":"10.1002/sea2.12313","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.12313","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores how small-scale farmers' shared moral understandings of land shape both land sales and land rental markets, in the context of the commoditization of agriculture in Nicaragua. The results here presented are based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a subsistence farming community in the highlands of Nicaragua. This research shows that even in relatively commoditized market economies, shared yet contested ideas around the ethics of a community moral economy stall and constrain the local marketization of land. Social relationships, ideas of a sacred origin of land, and expectations about the duties of landholders toward their community peers undermine the capitalist dynamics of supply and demand. This ethical challenge to capitalist market expansion into land markets enables the survival of small-scale subsistence farming. These findings are important, as they show how land markets are shaped by differing perspectives on historical dynamics of land tenure, class differentiation, and the everyday moral economies in which competing ideas of obligation, solidarity, and fair prices are articulated.</p>","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140552001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-07Epub Date: 2024-12-20DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12347
Joanne Baron
{"title":"The New Viking Age: A speculative historical archaeology","authors":"Joanne Baron","doi":"10.1002/sea2.12347","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.12347","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Written in response to the Nordic Krone scheme described in Mandirola's (2025) fictional brochure, this essay continues the fiction, presenting a historical and archaeological look back on the Nordic Council 200 years after its formation. In confusing a measure of economic output (e.g. money) with the output itself, the Nordic Council has doomed its society to violence and collapse.</p>","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-07Epub Date: 2024-12-23DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12346
Chima Michael Anyadike-Danes
{"title":"Austerity's implications: Parasitism and charity in an English village","authors":"Chima Michael Anyadike-Danes","doi":"10.1002/sea2.12346","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.12346","url":null,"abstract":"<p>English political discourse has long featured accusations of parasitical behavior. In this article, I provide insight into how discussions of parasitism feature in English people's daily lives. Specifically, I discuss how more than a decade of austerity has informed perceptions of parasitical behavior. In exploring this, I make use of more than a dozen months of fieldwork conducted with residents of Lyon, a rural, postindustrial village in North East England. My specific focus is discussions of parasitism occurring in two fixtures of austerity-era England: the food bank and the charity shop. After more than a decade of austerity, even those villagers volunteering at charity shops and food banks frequently engaged in conversations about parasitism. I draw on Michel Serres's scholarship on the parasite and place it in conversation with George Foster's various writings on the image of the limited good and the static economy to explain why this occurred. I suggest that the development of a worldview informed by a sense of limited good has encouraged beliefs about parasitism's contemporary prevalence.</p>","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/sea2.12346","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142884376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-07Epub Date: 2024-12-20DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12342
Nicola Ialongo
{"title":"How Bronze Age Europeans almost got rid of money","authors":"Nicola Ialongo","doi":"10.1002/sea2.12342","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.12342","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Economic AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-01-07Epub Date: 2024-12-23DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12344
Annaliese Milano Merfield
{"title":"The future of money — seen from above","authors":"Annaliese Milano Merfield","doi":"10.1002/sea2.12344","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sea2.12344","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Santiago Mandirola's investment brochure describes a fictional world in which the collapse of the US dollar has transformed the global monetary landscape. This comment analyzes the brochure and its assumptions through the lens of the crypto community. It considers the highly centralized, technocratic vision of monetary governance put forth by the brochure against the crypto community's efforts to build decentralized, consensual alternatives to existing economic institutions. Highlighting crypto's engagement with issues such as inflation and distribution, the comment suggests that Mandirola's brochure overlooks important contemporary debates on economic governance and underestimates the growing significance of non-state-led monetary arrangements.</p>","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/sea2.12344","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142884378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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