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Valuing as a social process: Embodiment, relevance, and commensuration

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Elder-Vass Dave, Inventing Value: The Social Construction of Monetary Worth, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 250 pp., £75.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-009-19933-9

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Stefan Ecks*
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University of Edinburgh, UK
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Corresponding author: Stefan Ecks, Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, 15 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD, UK. Email: stefan.ecks@ed.ac.uk.
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