Response to 'Māori Indigeneity and Commodity Fetishism' by Steven Webster

Authors

  • Fiona McCormack University of Waikato

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11157/sites-vol13iss2id355

Keywords:

economic anthropology, fisheries, gift, commodity, Marxian analysis

Abstract

The utility of the concepts of use-value and exchange-value, compared with gift and commodity are debated via a comparison of Hawaiian and Māori fisheries, in this response to Webster's article in this issue of Sites.

Author Biography

Fiona McCormack, University of Waikato

Dr Fiona McCormack is a Senior Lecturer in the Anthropology Program, at the University of Waikato. She obtained her PhD from the University of Auckland in 2007. Fiona conducts fieldwork on fisheries governance in Aotearoa, Hawaii, Ireland and, more recently, Iceland.

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Published

30-11-2016

How to Cite

McCormack, F. (2016). Response to ’Māori Indigeneity and Commodity Fetishism’ by Steven Webster. Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, 13(2), 19–24. https://doi.org/10.11157/sites-vol13iss2id355

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2016)

Section

Articles

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