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Value and Price, Influences and Substances in Elite Cattle Auctions

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ID2489083
AuthorsN S Leal (0000-0002-5693-4908, Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume13
Issue2
Pages95-109
Publication date2016-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-43412016v13n2p095
OpenAlexW2571701444
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412016000200095
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited8

Brazil is one of the largest producers of beef. It also produces and markets the most expensive zebus (Bos taurus indicus) in the world. In sumptuous auctions, which offer an abundant amount of food and drink to the participants, elite cattle are sold for millionaire prices. This article, aims to analyse this market through an ethnography of a cattle auction in the state of Minas Gerais: the set of exchanges that produce race and pedigree, value, and reputations and the socdes and substances that link men and cattle

Common value auction · Economics · Elite · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Mathematics

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Citation span2025 - 2025 (1)
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Highly citedNo
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