A Handbook of Economic Anthropology

Buch | Softcover

680 Seiten

2013 | 2nd edition
Edward Elgar Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78100-449-4 (ISBN)

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This thoroughly revised edition brings discussions up to date, and includes an important new section exploring ways that leading anthropologists have approached the current economic crisis.

The first edition of this unique Handbook was praised for its substantial and invaluable summary discussions of work by anthropologists on economic processes and issues, on the relationship between economic and non-economic areas of life and on the conceptual orientations that are important among economic anthropologists.

This thoroughly revised edition brings those discussions up to date, and includes an important new section exploring ways that leading anthropologists have approached the current economic crisis. Its scope and accessibility make it useful both to those who are interested in a particular topic and to those who want to see the breadth and fruitfulness of an anthropological study of economy.

This comprehensive Handbook will strongly appeal to undergraduate and post-graduate students in anthropology, economists interested in social and cultural dimensions of economic life, and alternative approaches to economic life, political economists, political scientists and historians.

James G. Carrier is Senior Research Associate in Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University, UK and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, US.

Preface

Introduction
James G. Carrier

PART I: ORIENTATIONS
1. Karl Polanyi
Barry L. Isaac

2. Anthropology, Political Economy and World-System Theory
J.S. Eades

3. Political Economy
Don Robotham

4. Decisions and Choices: The Rationality of Economic Actors
Sutti Oritz

5. Provisioning
Susana Narotzky

6. Community and Economy: Economy’s Base
Stephen Gudeman

PART II: ELEMENTS
7. Property
Mark Busse

8. Labour
E. Paul Durrenberger

9. Industrial Work
Jonathan Parry

10. Money in Twentieth-century Anthropology
Keith Hart

11. Finance 2.0
Bill Maurer

12. Distribution and Redistribution
Thomas C. Patterson

13. Consumption
Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld

PART III: CIRCULATION
14. Ceremonial Exchange: Debates and Comparisons
Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart

15. Markets: Places, Principles and Integrations
Kalman Applbaum

16. The Gift and Gift Economy
Yunxiang Yan

17. One-way Economic Transfers
Robert C. Hunt

PART IV: INTEGRATIONS
18. Gender
Maila Stivens

19. Environment and Economy
Eric Hirsch

20. Culture and Economy
Michael Blim

21. Economy and Religion
Simon Coleman

22. Economies of Ethnicity
Thomas Hylland Eriksen

PART V: ISSUES
23. Economic Anthropology and Ethics
Peter Luetchford

24. Households and their Markets in the Andes
Enrique Mayer

25. Peasants
Mark Harris

26. Economic Valuations and Environmental Policy
Catherine Alexander

27. Anthropology and Development: The Uneasy Relationship
David Lewis

28. The Informal Economy in Comparative Perspective
Martha Alter Chen

PART VI: REGIONS
29. South America
Terry Roopnaraine

30. Africa South of the Sahara
Mahir Saul

31. South Asia
John Harriss

32. East Asia
J.S. Eades

33. Towards an Economic Anthropology of Europe
Valeria Siniscalchi

PART VII: THE CRISIS
34. Oligarchy and State Capture: Soviet-style Mechanisms in Contemporary Finance Capitalism
Don Kalb and Oane Visser

35. Anthropology – of the Financial Crisis
Horacio Ortiz

36. Economic Crisis, 2008: What Happened, What Can be Learned About How and Why, What Could Happen Next
Michael Blim

37. Terms of Debate versus Words in Circulation: Some Rhetorics of the Crisis
Jane I. Guyer

38. The Financial Crisis and the History of Money
Keith Hart

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.11.2013
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	994 g
Einbandart	kartoniert
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-78100-449-8 / 1781004498
ISBN-13	978-1-78100-449-4 / 9781781004494
Zustand	Neuware