** Acknowledgments

** A Few Words by Way of Introduction

** Chapter 1 — Three Ways of Talking about Value

*** I: Clyde Kluckhohn’s value project

*** II: the maximizing individual

*** III: Structuralism and linguistic value

*** conclusions

** Chapter 2 — Current Directions In Exchange Theory

*** the Marxist moment and its aftermath

*** I: the return of economic man

**** Appadurai’s “politics of value”

**** parenthetical note: Annette Weiner on inalienable objects

*** II: Strathern’s neo-Maussian approach

**** Marxian critique, Maussian rejoinder

**** toward a synthesis?

**** Munn: the value of actions

*** conclusions (why so little action?)

** Chapter 3 — Value as the Importance of Actions

*** the underside of the Western tradition

*** Marx’s theory of value

*** the “praxiological approach”

*** dynamic structures

*** egocentrism and partial consciousness

*** Das Kapital as symbolic analysis

*** marketless societies

*** the Baining; production and realization

*** the Kayapo: the domestic cycle and village structure

*** tokens of value

*** value and values, fetishism

*** note one: negative value

*** note two: direct versus indirect appropriation

*** conclusion: a thousand totalities

** Chapter 4 — Action and Reflection, or Notes toward a Theory of Wealth and Power

*** the display of wealth

*** action and reflection

*** money versus coin

*** various kinds of fetishism

*** Madagascar and the slave trade

*** ody and sampy

*** sacrifice and the creation of charms

*** the political dimension, or taxes as ritual sacrifice

*** prospects and conclusions

** Chapter 5 — Wampum and Social Creativity among The Iroquois

*** the origins of wampum

*** the resurrection of names

*** war and social structure

*** the making of peace

*** the origins of the Great Peace

*** circulation and history

*** creation and intentionality

*** the dictatorship of dreams

*** Midwinter ceremonial and the white dog sacrifice

*** dream economies

** Chapter 6 — Marcel Mauss Revisited

*** the gift as social contract

*** the “essai sur le don” as a contribution to socialist theory

*** objects and persons

*** case 1: kula armshells and necklaces

*** Maori versus Kwakiutl

*** case 2: gifts in Aotearoa

**** mana and tapu

**** Maori values

**** mauri and hau

*** the hau of the gift (one more time)

**** giving, taking, and the gods

**** heirlooms

*** case 3: the kwakiutl potlatch

**** kinship

**** elements of the person

**** marriage

**** potlatches

**** property, distribution, and cosmology

**** the role of coppers

**** exchange and reciprocity

*** conclusions I: unraveling some things

**** pink cadillacs and autographed baseballs

**** a final comparison

*** conclusions II: political and moral conclusions

**** so: why do gifts have to be repaid?

**** a structuralist interlude (on value)

**** summary and perspectives

** Chapter 7 — The False Coin of Our Own Dreams, or the Problem of the Fetish, IIIb

*** the king and the coin

*** second thoughts

*** magic and Marxism

*** magic and anthropology

*** magical and religious attitudes

*** cthulhu’s architect

*** conclusions

*** Marx versus Mauss—take two

**** perspectives: from meaning to desire

** References Cited