Value and Worthlessness

Advocating for an interdisciplinary Marxist anthropology of the present this book uses historical and global anthropology to engage with history theory unevenness and comparison while using global ethnography and hidden histories as the keys to social discovery. Kalb's anthropology of value and worthlessness lays bare the logics that currently produce right wing populist and nationalist outcomes. The book also battles with the anthropology of global systems financialization and the seductive myths of global middle-class formation while assessing the theoretical legacies of Eric Wolf David Graeber David Harvey Jonathan Friedman Marcel Mauss and moral anthropology among others.