In redefining the concept of wealth, this book views wealth primarily as a question of reproduction, relational flows and life vitality, rather than merely 'accumulated assets'. It outlines wealth as a triangular phenomenon between capital, the commons, and power. This book was originally published as a special issue of History & Anthropology.

Theodoros Rakopoulos is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is author of From Clans to Co-ops: Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily (2017), and editor of The Global Life of Austerity: Comparing Beyond Europe (2018).

Knut Rio is Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is author of The Power of Perspective: Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu (2007); and co-editor of books on Oceania, religion and hierarchy, most recently Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia (with Michelle MacCarthy and Ruy Blanes, 2017).

1. Introduction to an anthropology of wealth 2. Entropy, alchemy and negative pigs: Obviating the matter of wealth 3. An economic theology of wealth: A perspective from central India 4. Commonwealth, inalienable possessions, and the res publica: The anthropology of aristocratic order and the landed estate 5. Commonwealth: On democracy and dispossession in Italy 6. Where do we go when we follow the money? The political-economic construction of Antimafia investigators in Western Sicily 7. Show me the money: Conspiracy theories and distant wealth 8. Tolai tabu as wealth and money: A shifting and unstable distinction