Books by Federico Neiburg

Essays in Ethnographic Theory. This collection highlights a key metaphor in contemporary discourse about economy and society. The contributors explore how references to realityand thereal economyare linked both to the utopias of collective well-being, supported by real monies and good economies, and the dystopias of financial bubbles and busts, in which peoples own lives crash along with the reality of their economies. An ambitious anthropology of economy, this volume questions how assemblages of vernacular and scient