Auctioning Patronage in Northeast Brazil: The Political Value of Money in a Ritual Market

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dc.contributor.authorAnsell, Aaronen
dc.coverage.countryBrazilen
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-08T18:19:34Zen
dc.date.available2019-07-08T18:19:34Zen
dc.date.issued2010-06en
dc.date.updated2019-07-08T18:19:32Zen
dc.description.abstractFundraising auctions help people in a small rural town in Northeast Brazil reckon with the effects that currency stabilization and democratization have had on municipal politics. These simultaneous processes have made politics confusing for the people of Passerinho by creating multiple modalities of electoral reciprocity. In this article, I argue that the ritual procedures of the auctions commensurate these modalities of reciprocity through a semiotic procedure in which money signifies both exchange value and more personal forms of value. I consider the auction's impact on municipal politics by looking at its effect on the narrative of democratic progress and on the prestige of grassroots politicians, traditional elites, and voluntary associations.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.extentPages 283-294en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2010.01226.xen
dc.identifier.issue2en
dc.identifier.orcidAnsell, Aaron [0000-0001-6365-5168]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/91211en
dc.identifier.volume112en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectAuctionen
dc.subjectBrazilen
dc.subjectClientelismen
dc.subjectvalueen
dc.subjectCharityen
dc.subjectdemocracyen
dc.subject1601 Anthropologyen
dc.subjectAnthropologyen
dc.titleAuctioning Patronage in Northeast Brazil: The Political Value of Money in a Ritual Marketen
dc.title.serialAmerican Anthropologisten
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.otherArticleen
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