Forthcoming Current Anthropology Wenner-Gren Symposium Curren Supplementary Issues (in order of appearance) t VOLUME 55 SUPPLEMENT 9 AUGUST 2014 e Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions. Anthropolog Current Joel Robbins and Naomi Haynes, eds. Politics of the Urban Poor. Veena Das and Shalini Randeria, eds. e Death of the Secret: e Public and Private in Anthropology. Lenore Anthropology Manderson, Mark Davis, and Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, eds. y Previously Published Supplementary Issues THE WENNER-GREN SYMPOSIUM SERIES Working Memory: Beyond Language and Symbolism. omas Wynn and August 2014 Frederick L. Coolidge, eds. CRISIS, VALUE, AND HOPE: RETHINKING THE ECONOMY Engaged Anthropology: Diversity and Dilemmas. Setha M. Low and Sally Engle Merry, eds. GUEST EDITORS: SUSANA NAROTZKY AND NIKO BESNIER Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form. Damani Partridge, Marina Welker, and Rebecca Hardin, eds. Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy Borrowing and Lending in South Africa e Origins of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas. T. Douglas Price and Regimes of Value in Mexican Household Financial Practices V Ofer Bar-Yosef, eds. olume 5 The Everyday Use of Microcredit in Rural South India e Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations: World Sacrifice at the Source of the Nile Histories, National Styles, and International Networks. Susan Lindee Uncertainty, Orientation to the Future, and “the Economy” and Ricardo Ventura Santos, eds. 5 Temporal Reasoning in Sarajevo Yearnings for “Normal Lives” Human Biology and the Origins of Homo. Susan Antón and Leslie C. Producing Value among Malagasy Marriage Migrants in France Aiello, eds. Supplement Migration as Hope Potentiality and Humanness: Revisiting the Anthropological Object in Reciprocity, Commodification, and Poverty in the Era of Financialization Contemporary Biomedicine. Klaus Hoeyer and Karen-Sue Taussig, eds. Work, Race, and Economic Citizenship Alternative Pathways to Complexity: Evolutionary Trajectories in the Identity Building and Communal Resistance in Wukan Village, China Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age. Steven L. Kuhn and Erella 9 The Economic Vulgate of Welfare Reform Hovers, eds. Rethinking the Economy with Thick Description and Weak Theory Current Anthropology is sponsored by e Page Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, a foundation endowed for scientific, s educational, and charitable purposes. e S1–S154 Foundation, however, is not to be understood as endorsing, by virtue of its financial support, any of the statements made, or views expressed, herein. 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Aiello Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy: Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 9 S1 Introduction Susana Narotzky and Niko Besnier Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy: An Introduction to Supplement 9 S4 Negotiating Regimes of Value: Debt, Shame, Sacrifice, and the Future Deborah James “Deeper into a Hole?” Borrowing and Lending in South Africa S17 Magdalena Villarreal Regimes of Value in Mexican Household Financial Practices S30 Isabelle Gue´rin Juggling with Debt, Social Ties, and Values: The Everyday Use of Microcredit in Rural South India S40 Parker Shipton Trusting and Transcending: Sacrifice at the Source of the Nile S51 Time-Space Dimensions of Making a Living in Times of Uncertainty Benoıˆt de L’Estoile “Money Is Good, but a Friend Is Better”: Uncertainty, Orientation to the Future, and “the Economy” S62 Stef Jansen On Not Moving Well Enough: Temporal Reasoning in Sarajevo Yearnings for “Normal Lives” S74 Jennifer Cole Producing Value among Malagasy Marriage Migrants in France: Managing Horizons of Expectation S85 http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA Frances Pine Migration as Hope: Space, Time, and Imagining the Future S95 The Worth of People and the Moral Obligation to Care Jaime Palomera Reciprocity, Commodification, and Poverty in the Era of Financialization S105 Karen Brodkin Work, Race, and Economic Citizenship S116 Shenjing He and Desheng Xue Identity Building and Communal Resistance against Landgrabs in Wukan Village, China S126 Vincent Dubois The Economic Vulgate of Welfare Reform: Elements for a Socioanthropological Critique S138 Afterword J. K. Gibson-Graham Rethinking the Economy with Thick Description and Weak Theory S147 Current Anthropology Volume 55, Supplement 9, August 2014 S1 Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 9 by Leslie C. Aiello Figure 1. Participants in the symposium “Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy.” Front row, from left to right: Deborah James, Shenjing He, Magdalena Villarreal, Jennifer Cole, Karen Brodkin, Isabelle Gue´rin, Leslie Aiello, Laurie Obbink. Middle row: Janet Roitman, Katherine Gibson, Jaime Palomera, Frances Pine, Susana Narotzky, Stephen Gudeman. Back row: Parker Shipton, Stef Jansen, Benoıˆt de L’Estoile, Niko Besnier, Gavin Smith, Vincent Dubois. A color version of this photo appears in the online edition of Current Anthropology. Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy is the ninth ogy” organized by Alfred E. Kroeber.1 “Crisis, Value, and Wenner-Gren symposium to be published as an open-access Hope” was organized by Susana Narotzky (Universitat de supplement of Current Anthropology. It is also the 146th sym- Barcelona) and Niko Besnier (University of Amsterdam) and posium in the Wenner-Gren symposium series, which began was held September 14–20, 2012, at Tivoli Pala´cio de Seteais, in 1952 with the “International Symposium on Anthropol- Sintra, Portugal (fig. 1). Leslie C. Aiello is President of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for 1. See the Foundation’s website for a history of the symposium pro- Anthropological Research (470 Park Avenue South, 8th Floor North, gram: http://www.wennergren.org/history/conferences-seminars-symposia New York, New York 10016, U.S.A.). /wenner-gren-symposia. ᭧ 2014 by The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. All rights reserved. 0011-3204/2014/55S9-0001$10.00. DOI: 10.1086/676666 S2 Current Anthropology Volume 55, Supplement 9, August 2014 Figure 2. Wenner-Gren Symposium 12, “Economics and Anthropology: Capital, Saving, and Credit in Peasant Societies,” held at Burg Wartenstein Conference Center, August 22–28, 1960. Seated