Value is life under an interpretation: Existential commitments, instrumental reasons and disorienting metaphors

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 149-162

  Kockelman, Paul ^a  

^a Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

agency; cognitive representation; economy; identity; morality; social relation; value

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956795928     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499610365381     Document Type: Review

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