In much anthropological reflection on value creation through objects, value is conceptualized as created in circulation. Yet objects’ social lives are punctuated by periods of waiting as much as they are by movement. Waiting can thus be theorized and examined as a critical pause in the circulation of objects, one that enables their value transformation and creation via social actors, institutions, and valuation processes. Demonstrating this can be accomplished ethnographically by following the consignment, exhibition, and sale of a group of objects—in this case by the artist Maqbool Fida Husain via a Mumbai art gallery. As objects wait, the art world turns around them, setting valuation and other value‐making processes in motion. This moment of waiting is precisely when our methodological and analytical gaze should turn to the object's social relations and to the collective activities of the art world.

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为等待中的对象创造价值


在对通过物体创造价值的许多人类学反思中，价值被概念化为在流通中创造的。然而，物体的社会生活不仅被运动所打断，也被等待的时间所打断。因此，等待可以被理论化和检验为物体流通中的一个关键暂停，它通过社会参与者、机构和评估过程实现其价值转变和创造。展示这一点可以通过跟踪一组物品的寄售、展览和销售来从人种学角度来实现——在本例中，艺术家马克布尔·菲达·侯赛因（Maqbool Fida Husain）通过孟买美术馆寄售、展览和销售这些物品。当物品等待时，艺术世界围绕着它们转动，启动估价和其他价值创造过程。这个等待的时刻正是我们方法论和分析的目光应该转向对象的社会关系和艺术世界的集体活动的时候。