The names we would usually attach to the Mobius strip, rhizome, and parasite are respectively Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Serres.
See George W. Stocking, Jr., “Maclay, Kubary, Malinowski: Archetypes from the Dreamtime of Anthropology” in Colonial Situations: Essays in the Contextualizations of Knowledge, ed. George W.Stocking, Jr. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993), 212–275.
Annette Weiner, Inalienable Possessions (Berkeley: University of California Press: 1992).
Bronislaw Malinowski, Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press, 1984).
What constitutes this demise need not be the loss of the carrying materiality. A new “body” to carry the spirit of the gift can be fabricated without the thing being lost.
Mauss notes early on that Kula is the ritualized expression of the hierarchy of values created through “a vast system of services rendered and reciprocated, which indeed seems to embrace the whole of Trobriand economic and civil life.” Marcel Mauss, The Gift (New York: Norton, 2000), 34.
Gustav Peebles. “The Anthropology of Credit and Debt.” Annual Review of Anthropology 39 (2010): 225–240.
Mauss, The Gift, 35–6.
We should also not be lulled by the semantic weight of the English terms, “participants” and “participation” (participare). Because the world that Kula makes is there before the participant enters into it, to participate is a demand.
See Peebles “The Anthropology of Credit and Debt.”
See, for instance, Nancy Hartsock, Money, Sex, and Power: Toward a Feminist Historical Materialism (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1986); Marilyn Strathern, The Gender of the Gift (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990).
Peter Sloterdijk. Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology (New York: Semiotext(e), 2011).
I understand a life world as a space of inhabitable existence. See also Bruno Latour, “Some Experiments in Art and Politics,” e-flux journal no. 23 (March 2011), see →.
See for instance Gayle Rubin’s two seminal essays,“The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex” in Toward an Anthropology of Women, ed. Rayna Reiter (New York: Monthly Review Press,1975); and “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality,” in Pleasure and Danger, ed. Carole Vance (London: Routledge & Kegan, Paul, 1984).
See Anthropologyand the Colonial Encounter, ed. Talal Asad (Amherst: Prometheus Books,1995).
See Benjamin Lee and Edward Lipuma, “Cultures of Circulation: The Imaginations of Modernity,” Public Culture 14 (January 2002): 191–213
See Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar and Elizabeth A. Povinelli, “Technologies of Public Form: Circulation, Transfiguration, Recognition.” Public Culture 15 (March2003): 385–398.
Claude Levi-Strauss, Elementary Structures of Kinship (Boston: Beacon Press, 1971).
Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2000). More, recently, Mary Poovey has examined the rhetorics of finance that supported the elaborate and geographically extensive networks of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Western European finance. See Mary Poovey “Writing about Finance in Victorian England: Disclosure and Secrecy in the Culture of Investment,” Victorian Studies 45 (January 2000): 17–41.
Lorraine J. Daston, “The Domestication of Risk: Mathematical Probability and Insurance 1650–1830” in The Probabilistic Revolution Volume 1: Ideas in History, ed. Lorenz Kruger, Lorraine J.Daston, and Michael Heidelberger (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987), 237–260.