Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes

<ul> <li> It provides a fine grained ethnography of barter interactions and regimes of value.</li> <li> It explores the social performativity of barter stressing the role of instrumental transactions in the fabric of society.</li> <li> It demonstrates the usefulness of the concept of barter to anthropological theories of economic exchanges - usually focussed on gifts and commodities.</li> <li> It conceptually elaborates the notion of ceremonial exchanges.</li></ul>