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Learning from the Tiv: Why a Sustainable Economy Would Have to Be "Multicentric"

Although careful not to romanticize the premodern cultures that have traditionally been the central object of their research, anthropologists might reconsider some classical ethnography in the light of ongoing deliberations on sustainability. Economic anthropology is in a unique position to achieve a distanced view of modern money and neoliberal market ideology by contrasting its notions of value and reciprocity with those of premodern, "multicentric" economies such as that documented over 50 years ago by Paul Bohannan among the Tiv of Nigeria. The assumptions of generalized interchangeability…