ANTROPOLOGÍA POLÍTICA DE LAS FINANZAS Y ANTROPOLOGÍA DEL DINERO

Abstract

This text presents Keith Hart's anthropology of money and its importance for a political anthropology of the financial industry. Hart argues that money articulates social hierarchies and inequalities that connect intimate personal experience with the rest of humanity, and that the multiplicity of violence and the liberating potential of these interdependences does not correspond to a single logic, contrary to what abstract economic theories propose, critical or otherwise. This approach makes a major contribution to a political anthropology of finance, analysing the multiplicity of practices in the financial industry from the perspective of how they participate in the constitution of global monetary power relations, producing and transforming social hierarchies through their distribution of money and their justification of this distribution.