Juliane Müller 
Embodying Exchange [PDF ebook] 
Materiality, Morality and Global Commodity Chains in Andean Commerce

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Addressing the infrastructural, social and legal complexities of a global commodity chain, this book uses an ethnographic analysis of the encounter between multinational corporations and popular traders in the Bolivian Andes. It offers a situated account of the everyday work of chain (un)making, and practices of translation, accommodation and contention. It highlights traders’ collective action, understanding of economic concepts and regulatory principles, and traces the circulation of goods and money beyond market exchange. All in all, it aims to comprehend the reproduction of the native trading system amid global connections, and to humanize our understanding of the economy by grounding it in everyday life, bottom-up socio-material infrastructures and morality.

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Table of Content

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: The Materiality and Morality of Andean Commerce

Chapter 1. Extra-legal Marketplaces: Past, Present and Future
Chapter 2. Commercial Infrastructure, Spatial Regulation and Situated Economic Ethics

Part II: Traders and Multinationals in La Paz and the Region

Chapter 3. Buyer-Seller-Loyalty and the Limits of Corporate Branding
Chapter 4. Disrupted Cell Phone Supply Chains: Circulatory Authority and Disputes over Ownership

Part III: Embodying Exchange

Chapter 5. Self-Account Trading, Social Interdependencies and Commercial Histories
Chapter 6. The Enmeshment of Commercial and Ritual Cycles: The China Connection of the Fiesta De Jesús Del Gran Poder
Chapter 7. ‘Wealth-in-People’: Gifting and Sharing Amidst Growing Economic Inequality

Conclusion

References
Index

About the author


Juliane Müller is Professor of Social Anthropology (Serra Húnter Programme) at the University of Barcelona. This is her fourth monograph, the first in English.

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