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It's time! Issue 1 of volume 12 of Economic Anthropology is now available to read. Stay tuned over the coming weeks as we spotlight the articles, book reviews, and symposium responses from our incredible contributors.
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The special issue of @economicanthro.bsky.social on "Work and the Data Economy" that I coedited with Nick Seaver and Alex Blanchette is out at last!
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July 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The special issue of @economicanthro.bsky.social on "Work and the Data Economy" that I coedited with Nick Seaver and Alex Blanchette is out at last!
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Thank you again to everyone who contributed to the most recent edition of EA. And what better way to conclude than returning to the beginning? Check out this edition's Editor's Note by Chelsie Yount, Sibel Kusimba, Caroline Bledsoe, and Caitlin Zaloom.
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March 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Thank you again to everyone who contributed to the most recent edition of EA. And what better way to conclude than returning to the beginning? Check out this edition's Editor's Note by Chelsie Yount, Sibel Kusimba, Caroline Bledsoe, and Caitlin Zaloom.
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The week is ending, and so is our spotlighting of the Symposium sparked by Santiago Mandirola's fascinating piece of speculative fiction. Why not read his response to the responses in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology?
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February 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The week is ending, and so is our spotlighting of the Symposium sparked by Santiago Mandirola's fascinating piece of speculative fiction. Why not read his response to the responses in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology?
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It's Wednesday! Maintain your momentum through this week by checking out Scott M. Fitzpatrick's Symposium response "Ancient numismatists and the seasteading movement" in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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February 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It's Wednesday! Maintain your momentum through this week by checking out Scott M. Fitzpatrick's Symposium response "Ancient numismatists and the seasteading movement" in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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Happy Monday! Kickstart your week with Nicola Ialongo's Symposium response "How Bronze Age Europeans almost got rid of money" in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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February 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Happy Monday! Kickstart your week with Nicola Ialongo's Symposium response "How Bronze Age Europeans almost got rid of money" in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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This Friday, finish off the week strong by reading Joanne Baron's Symposium response "The New Viking Age: A speculative historical archaeology" in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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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...
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February 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This Friday, finish off the week strong by reading Joanne Baron's Symposium response "The New Viking Age: A speculative historical archaeology" in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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Happy Wednesday! Keep the energy up with a Symposium response like Annaliese Milano Merfield's "The future of money — seen from above" in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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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 a...
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February 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Happy Wednesday! Keep the energy up with a Symposium response like Annaliese Milano Merfield's "The future of money — seen from above" in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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Make this Monday better than ever with Bill Maurer's Symposium response "A promise is a promise: A love letter from the ACH to the world of 2050" in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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Experiments in money often recapitulate long-standing human concerns over finality and fixity, despite money's reference points in political authority, trust, and the memorialization of relationships...
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February 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Make this Monday better than ever with Bill Maurer's Symposium response "A promise is a promise: A love letter from the ACH to the world of 2050" in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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What better way to cap off a week than with a Symposium response? Check out "Past performance is no guarantee of future results" by Allison Truitt in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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A response to the promotional pack on Four Alternative Currencies and their Worlds.
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February 15, 2025 at 3:09 AM
What better way to cap off a week than with a Symposium response? Check out "Past performance is no guarantee of future results" by Allison Truitt in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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This Wednesday, why not take the time to read "Four alternative currencies and their worlds," an evocative Symposium piece by Santiago Mandriola in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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The following piece is a work of fiction. The trigger for this text was to explore a “what if” question. “What if X happened?” “What scenarios would emerge as a consequence of X?” This premise guided...
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February 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This Wednesday, why not take the time to read "Four alternative currencies and their worlds," an evocative Symposium piece by Santiago Mandriola in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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Monday has come once again, and so has the time to spotlight another amazing article. Read "The moral economy of land markets in the Nicaragua highlands" by Santiago Ripoll in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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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. Th...
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February 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Monday has come once again, and so has the time to spotlight another amazing article. Read "The moral economy of land markets in the Nicaragua highlands" by Santiago Ripoll in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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Close out a great week with an even better article! Check out "Austerity's implications: Parasitism and charity in an English village" by Chima Michael Anyadike-Danes in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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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. Speci....
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February 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Close out a great week with an even better article! Check out "Austerity's implications: Parasitism and charity in an English village" by Chima Michael Anyadike-Danes in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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It's Wednesday! Celebrate the middle of the week with "Workers to capitalists: Repositioning Berlin's middle class" by Hadas Weiss in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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In the late 1920s, Siegfried Kracauer studied the then new middle class in Berlin, asking why they were not more disruptive of the structures that bore down on them. I ask the same about insecure pro....
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February 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It's Wednesday! Celebrate the middle of the week with "Workers to capitalists: Repositioning Berlin's middle class" by Hadas Weiss in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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Happy Monday! Kick off this week with "Wastecraft and its multifaceted learning in Cuba" by Claudia Marina Lanzidei in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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In Cuba, scarcity is an ever-present reality due to more than six decades of socialist regime and consequent economic embargo. One of the coping strategies for people facing such adversity has been t....
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February 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Happy Monday! Kick off this week with "Wastecraft and its multifaceted learning in Cuba" by Claudia Marina Lanzidei in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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The end of the week is upon us! Why not finish strong with "Violent sustainability: Blitzscale and counteraccounting in an Indian agtech start-up" by Nikhit Agrawal in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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In recent years, there has been rapid digitalization in agriculture, with India seeing a significant rise in agricultural technology (agtech) start-ups. Many of these start-ups promise to address the...
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January 31, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The end of the week is upon us! Why not finish strong with "Violent sustainability: Blitzscale and counteraccounting in an Indian agtech start-up" by Nikhit Agrawal in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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The end of the week is almost here, but there's more than enough time left to check out Paulina Komar's review of Dolia: The containers that made Rome an empire of wine by Carline Cheung in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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January 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The end of the week is almost here, but there's more than enough time left to check out Paulina Komar's review of Dolia: The containers that made Rome an empire of wine by Carline Cheung in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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here is the theme for the spring session of the Radical Spotlights Series: "Queering Capitalism" 😍 if you know potential speakers in and around economic anthropology, let us know!! @anthrodesires.bsky.social @enqa.bsky.social @economicanthro.bsky.social
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Among the many benefits of joining the SEA are the opportunities we offer for you to connect with other economic anthropologists from across the country and
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January 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
here is the theme for the spring session of the Radical Spotlights Series: "Queering Capitalism" 😍 if you know potential speakers in and around economic anthropology, let us know!! @anthrodesires.bsky.social @enqa.bsky.social @economicanthro.bsky.social
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Keep your midweek energy up by checking out "Reaching millions: Water, substitute infrastructure, and the politics of scale in Kenya" by Fiona Gedeon Achi in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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This article analyzes the politics of scale in global development by focusing on a sanitation program in western Kenya. It follows the daily work of a nongovernmental organization that seeks to provi...
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January 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Keep your midweek energy up by checking out "Reaching millions: Water, substitute infrastructure, and the politics of scale in Kenya" by Fiona Gedeon Achi in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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Elevate this Tuesday by checking out Ilana Gershon's review of Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance by Melinda Cooper in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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January 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Elevate this Tuesday by checking out Ilana Gershon's review of Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance by Melinda Cooper in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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Another Monday, another fantastic article! Check out "Logics of reciprocity in Denmark: Longing and belonging in a virtuous cycle of welfare" by Olivia Spalletta in the January 2025 edition of Economic anthropology.
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Nordic welfare states are characterized by universal access to generous welfare services, including education, health care, and developmental support. These benefits are maintained through a shared c....
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January 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Another Monday, another fantastic article! Check out "Logics of reciprocity in Denmark: Longing and belonging in a virtuous cycle of welfare" by Olivia Spalletta in the January 2025 edition of Economic anthropology.
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Happy Friday! Bring this week home by checking out "The value added of solidarity economies: Bureaucratic constructions of value for alternative economic policy in Ecuador" by Alexander D'Aloia in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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The National Institute of the Popular Solidarity Economy (IEPS) in Ecuador was created to promote an alternative form of economy—the Popular Solidarity Economy (PSE). As a precarious institute with l...
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January 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Happy Friday! Bring this week home by checking out "The value added of solidarity economies: Bureaucratic constructions of value for alternative economic policy in Ecuador" by Alexander D'Aloia in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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It's Thursday once again. Why not take a break and check out Iselin Åsedotter Strønen's review of Pink gold: Women, shrimp, and work in Mexico by María L. Cruz-Torres in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology?
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January 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It's Thursday once again. Why not take a break and check out Iselin Åsedotter Strønen's review of Pink gold: Women, shrimp, and work in Mexico by María L. Cruz-Torres in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology?
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🤯 Could hyper-transparency BREAK the dollar?
Mandirola's @economicanthro.bsky.social explores this wild scenario: an "Honest Currencies Program" tracks every single USD. Sound great, right?
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Mandirola's @economicanthro.bsky.social explores this wild scenario: an "Honest Currencies Program" tracks every single USD. Sound great, right?
#Anthropology #AlternativeEconomies #Collapse #Money
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January 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🤯 Could hyper-transparency BREAK the dollar?
Mandirola's @economicanthro.bsky.social explores this wild scenario: an "Honest Currencies Program" tracks every single USD. Sound great, right?
#Anthropology #AlternativeEconomies #Collapse #Money
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Mandirola's @economicanthro.bsky.social explores this wild scenario: an "Honest Currencies Program" tracks every single USD. Sound great, right?
#Anthropology #AlternativeEconomies #Collapse #Money
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Wednesdays can be a drag, but they don't have to be. Why not improve your day by perusing "Economy of production: A theory of household labor organization and material reuse" by Maureen S. Meyers in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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Household economic studies of preindustrial societies have overlooked one very specific and common material aspect: thrift. This article introduces a theory of economic production for household analy...
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January 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Wednesdays can be a drag, but they don't have to be. Why not improve your day by perusing "Economy of production: A theory of household labor organization and material reuse" by Maureen S. Meyers in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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Happy Tuesday! Celebrate surviving Monday by checking out Edward F. Fischer's review of Kretek capitalism: Making, marketing, and consuming clove cigarettes in Indonesia by Marina Welker in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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January 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Happy Tuesday! Celebrate surviving Monday by checking out Edward F. Fischer's review of Kretek capitalism: Making, marketing, and consuming clove cigarettes in Indonesia by Marina Welker in the January 2025 edition of Economic Anthropology.
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