ISBN:
9781849809283
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (680 p)
Ausgabe:
2nd ed
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Paralleltitel:
Print version A Handbook of Economic Anthropology
DDC:
306.3
Schlagwort(e):
Ökonomische Anthropologie
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
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
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I ORIENTATIONS; 1 Karl Polanyi; 2 Anthropology, political economy and world-system theory; 3 Political economy; 4 Decisions and choices: the rationality of economic actors; 5 Provisioning; 6 Community and economy: economy's base; PART II ELEMENTS; 7 Property; 8 Labour; 9 Industrial work; 10 Money in twentieth-century anthropology; 11 Finance 2.0; 12 Distribution and redistribution; 13 Consumption; PART III CIRCULATION; 14 Ceremonial exchange: debates and comparisons
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
15 Markets: places, principles and integrations16 The gift and gift economy; 17 One-way economic transfers; PART IV INTEGRATIONS; 18 Gender; 19 Environment and economy; 20 Culture and economy; 21 Economy and religion; 22 Economies of ethnicity; 23 Economic anthropology and ethics; 24 Households and their markets in the Andes; 25 Peasants; 26 Economic valuations and environmental policy; 27 Anthropology and development: the uneasy relationship; 28 The informal economy in comparative perspective; PART VI REGIONS; 29 South America; 30 Africa south of the Sahara; 31 South Asia; 32 Ea st Asia
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
33 Towards an economic anthropology of EuropePART VII THE CRISIS; 34 Oligarchy and state capture: Soviet-style mechanisms in contemporary finance capitalism; 35 Anthropology - of the financial crisis; 36 Economic crisis, 2008: what happened, what can be learned about how and why, what could happen next; 37 Terms of debate versus words in circulation: some rhetorics of the crisis; 38 The financial crisis and the history of money; Index
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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