Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value : The False Coin of Our Own Dreams

Acknowledgments vii A Few Words by Way of Introduction ix Three Ways of Talking about Value 1(22) Current Directions in Exchange Theory 23(26) Value as the Importance of Actions 49(42) Action and Reflection, or Notes toward a Theory of Wealth and Power 91(26) Wampum and Social Creativity among the Iroquois 117(34) Marcel Mauss Revisited 151(78) The False Coin of our own Dreams, or the Problem of the Fetish, IIIB 229(34) Notes 263(18) References Cited 281(36) Index 317