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Anthropologie et développement

Anthropologie et développement. E751.3ème séance 8/10/2012. A & D: Troisième cours: anthropologie économique. Etat ????. Base. Marché. Base=foundation=commons

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Anthropologie et développement

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  1. Anthropologie et développement E751.3ème séance 8/10/2012

  2. A & D: Troisième cours: anthropologie économique Etat ???? Base Marché

  3. Base=foundation=commons « the base is a shared interest or value. It is a patrimony or legacy of a community and refers to anything that contributes to the material and social sustenance of a people with a shared identity: land, buildings, seed stock, knowledge of practices, a transportation network, an educational system, or rituals. As the lasting core, though changeable over time, the base represents temporality and continuity ». S. Gudeman, 2001: 27.

  4. You never actually own a Patek Philippe you merely take care of it for the next generation

  5. Blue Nile Scheme (Sudan), V. Bernal, 1994 the interactions market/base Cash crop (cotton) Access to (state) land to cultivate subsisten-ce crops Enforce-ment of Base Access to remittances Market Market Labour force (young people going to Saudi Arabia)

  6. Market Ouahigouya (Burkina Faso), Jacob & Leu (2013) Shopkeepers and municipality’s bases Base from the shopkeepers’point of view Business (fonds de commerce) incomes Market’ animation Hence the importance of rents Building up public goods (schools, clinics, roads…) Base from the municipality’s point of view

  7. Market Ouahigouya (Burkina Faso), Jacob & Leu (2013) -value : family values, individual  values; -value : market value of a house, -value : value as contrast, value as a meaningful difference (de Saussure). --> « value is the way actors represent the importance of their own actions to themselves as part of some larger whole ». ---> « the process of realisation of value involves some form of public recognition » ---> « the study of value invariably takes us beyond what we normally refer to as “economics », for it lead us into moral, aesthetic and symbolic territory that is very hard to reduce to rational calculation and science ». David Graeber, 2005, Value : anthropological theories of value, in James G. Carrier (ed.), A Handbook of Economic Anthropology, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar : 439-454. See also D. Graeber, 2001,

  8. Market Ouahigouya (Burkina Faso), Jacob & Leu (2013) Conflicts of value The shopkeepers’point of view « We are creators of eco. value through our efforts to dvlp customers’loyalty (business, fonds de commerce), to adapt to the specificity of african retail trade, to create a good athmosphere on the market » (Shopkeepers don’t say that, anthropologist has to say it!) Difficulties to pay the rent, difficulties to respect the market’s division of space, business rights invisible (and transfered informally but recognized by law) « The shopkeepers are renters, they don’t create any eco. value, the municipality creates all the value » (municipality says explicitly that!) the municipality’s point of view

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