Kinds of Value – An Experiment in Modal Anthropology

Paul Kockelman is professor of anthropology at Yale University.

1. Nuts to an Anthropological Theory of Value 2. A Relation between Agents Mediated by a Relation between Entities 3. Saussurean Values 4. Inalienable Possessions 5. Aesthetic Value, Poetic Function, Equivalence Framing 6. Chickens, Machetes, and Chains: Meta-Equivalence and The Purification of Value 7. Singularities, Replacements, Commodities(and Something Else Entirely) 8. The Translation of Equivalence: Value, Sense, Path 9.Possible Worlds: From Saussure’s Value to Frege’s Sense (and Truth Value) 10. Reworded Possibilities: From Imagining Outcomes to Second-Guessing Actions 11. The Wording and Worlding of Truth-Value 12. Commensurationand Comparison 13. The Genealogy of Intensity, The Revaluation of Value 14. Semiotic Values 15. The Regimentation and Internalization of Value 16. From Figures to Grounds: Labor Power and Semiotic Potential 17. The Commodity is a Semiotic Process 18. Grounding Economic Value, and/or Regimenting Price 19. A Mayan Ontology of The Anti-Commodity 20. Energy, Workand Friction 21. Conversion, Preservation, and Evil 22. Affordances, Instruments, and Actions 23. Action, Agency, Excellence, and Existential Values 24. From Short-Term to Long-Term Action 25. Agency, Personhood, Power 26. Credit, Debt, Ownership, and the Personification of Deontic Modality 27.Felicity and Felicitousness, Aristotle and Austin 28. The /Hau/, qua Performativity and Inter(im)subjectivity of Economic Rituals 29. Renown and Resound: The Care of Selfand The Curation of Stories 30. Evaluative Standards, Ideals, and Second-Order Desire 31. The Story as a Representation of Ideal Actionsand/or Ethical Persons 32. The Stories We Tell are (More or LessEquivalent to) Kula Shells 33. Meta-Ideals, Idols, and/or The Worthiness of Others’ Worlds