Hierarchy and Value (eBook)

Naomi Haynes is a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include the anthropology of Christianity, political economy, exchange, gender, hierarchy, and value. Her publications include Moving by the Spirit (University of California Press, 2017) and a special issue of Current Anthropology, “The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, and New Directions” (co-edited with Joel Robbins, 2014). She is a cocurator for the Anthropology of Christianity Bibliographic Blog and has recently begun an ESRC-funded research project that explores Zambia’s constitutional declaration that it is a “Christian nation.”

Jason Hickel is an anthropologist at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research spans several related themes, including political conflict, inequality, postdevelopment, and ecological economics. He is the author of Democracy as Death: The Moral Order of Anti-Liberal Politics in South Africa (University of California Press, 2015) and The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Penguin, 2017). He writes a column on political economy for The Guardian and Al Jazeera, sits on the executive board of Academics Stand Against Poverty, and serves as Policy Director for The Rules collective. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Introduction: Hierarchy and Value
Naomi Haynes and Jason Hickel

Chapter 1. Battle of Cosmologies: The Catholic Church, Adat, and ‘Inculturation’ among Northern Lio, Indonesia
Signe Howell

Chapter 2. Vertical Love: Forms of Submission and Top-Down Power in Orthodox Ethiopia
Diego Maria Malara and Tom Boylston

Chapter 3. The Good, the Bad, and the Dead: The Place of Destruction in the Organization of Social Life, Which Means Hierarchy
Frederick H. Damon

Chapter 4. Civilization, Hierarchy, and Political-Economic Inequality
Stephan Feuchtwang

Chapter 5. Islam and Pious Sociality: The Ethics of Hierarchy in the Tablighi Jamaat in Pakistan
Arsalan Khan

Chapter 6. Demotion as Value: Rank Infraction among the Ngadha in Flores, Indonesia
Olaf H. Smedal

Afterword: The Rise of Hierarchy
David Graeber