Explorations in Economic Anthropology

Key Issues and Critical Reflections

Deema Kaneff, Kirsten W. Endres (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

316 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-911-6 (ISBN)

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At a time of rising global economic precarity and social inequality, the field of economic anthropology offers solutions through the study of local and contextualized economic practices. This book is made up of an exciting collection of succinct essays authored by leading scholars primarily from the field of economic anthropology, but also featuring contributions from sociology and history. The chapters engage with debates at the cutting edge of research on the topics of Eurasia, the anthropology of postsocialism and the embeddedness of economic practices.

Deema Kaneff is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Birmingham in the UK and Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Chris Hann and the Anthropological Study of Economic Life

Kirsten W. Endres and Deema Kaneff

Part I: Reconsidering (Post)Socialist Spaces

Chapter 1. Civilizations and Economies: Notes on a Neglected Theme

Johann P. Arnason

Chapter 2. From Halecki to Hann: The Historiography of Historical Regions

Stefan Troebst

Chapter 3. Out of The Frying Pan and into The Fire, or Modernization Forever? Economic Strategies in the Transformation of Peasant Societies

Mihály Sárkány

Chapter 4. Something to Be Nostalgic About? Goulash Socialist and Postsocialist Rural Society in Hungary

Nigel Swain

Chapter 5. Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone: The Indivisibility of Economic and Discursive Aspects in Neoliberal and Populist Regimes in Poland

Michał Buchowski

Chapter 6. Making a Reality of Other People’s Fictions: A Smithian Critique of Post-Marxian and Polányi-ite Accounts of Exploitation

Michael Stewart

Chapter 7. Resilience and Surveillance in Hann’s Eurasia

Steven Sampson

Part II: Economic Anthropology in a Changing World

Chapter 8. Hijra, Port and Market: Pre-Ottoman Economies in South-West Arabia's Zaydi Realm

Andre Gingrich

Chapter 9. From Social Norms to Legal Norms: Regulating Work in Post-Neoliberal Political Economies

Ruth Dukes and Wolfgang Streeck

Chapter 10. The Moral Economy of Anthropological Scholarship

Monica Heintz

Chapter 11. Some Thoughts on Embeddedness, Value and the Moral Dimension in the Work of Chris Hann

Frances Pine

Chapter 12. Property, Resources and Gauging Social Change

Deema Kaneff

Chapter 13. Birth, Property, and the Male Descendant: Some Evidence from India

Chris Gregory

Chapter 14. What Has Happened to Turkish Tea? Thoughts on a Cash Crop, the Turkish State and Society in this Millennium

Lale Yalçin-Heckmann

Part III: Economies of the Sacred and Secular

Chapter 15. Economy is a Ritual

Stephen Gudeman

Chapter 16. The Rice, the Rice Goddess and the Sickle: An Agricultural ‘Revolution’ among the Bru of Khe Sanh, 1989

Gábor Vargyas

Chapter 17. The Dharma and the Dime: Money and Buddhist Morality

Christoph Brumann

Chapter 18. Stealing Goddesses: The Political Economy of Kingship in Premodern India

Burkhard Schnepel

Chapter 19. Dalits and the Market: Liberation or Oppression?

David Gellner

Chapter 20. Polanyi Goes to Mauritius: Economy and Society in the Postcolony

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Publications by Chris Hann

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.05.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-80073-911-7 / 1800739117
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-911-6 / 9781800739116
Zustand	Neuware