This article examines two values that have long motivated work in economic anthropology: the value of denunciatory critique and the value of thinking otherwise. Through a retrospective analysis of research that I have conducted on consumer debt in Brazil, I offer two different versions of that research based on whether the story is driven by the first value of denunciation or by the second of thinking otherwise. In doing so, I suggest ways to address the limitations of both anthropology focused on denunciatory critique and the more recent development of an “anthropology of the good” by outlining what I call an anthropology of wisdom.

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走向智慧的经济人类学

本文探讨了长期以来推动经济人类学工作的两种价值观：谴责性批评的价值和以其他方式思考的价值。通过对我对巴西消费者债务进行的研究进行回顾性分析，我提供了该研究的两个不同版本，基于该故事是由第一个谴责的价值驱动还是由第二个不同的想法驱动。在此过程中，我提出了一些方法，通过概述我所说的“善的人类学”来解决侧重于谴责性批评的人类学和最近发展的“善的人类学”的局限性。智慧人类学。