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SUMMARY:Enumerative Stalling and the Precarious Production of Value in Mon
 golia - Joseph Bristley\, University College\, London
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CONTACT:Anna Clayton
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on long-term fieldwork in a rural district of central 
 Mongolia\, I explore how a variety of enumerative practices establish crea
 tive moments of ‘temporal stalling’ from which a sense of value can em
 erge. Focusing on the production of pastoral value reveals that it is also
  intimately related to the production of an authoritative sense of male pe
 rsonhood. Exploring this dual process\, I draw out how a sense of value 
 – how people “assess the importance of what they do” (Graeber 2001)
 – is\, in the final analysis\, highly precarious and ultimately irreduci
 ble to encompassment through processes of enumeration. 
LOCATION:Mond Building Seminar Room
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