ISSN:
0567-414X
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 292 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
ASA Monographs 6
Keywords:
Soziales Verhalten Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt
;
Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
;
Gesellschaft, primitive
;
Wirtschaftsethnologie
;
Anthropologie, soziale
Abstract:
The main focus of this volume - the processes of choice and decision-making in different economic systems - offers scope for the convergence of economic and anthropological perspectives. It concentrates on transactions that both express and influence social relationships and values.
Description / Table of Contents:
Editor's preface -- Raymond Firth: Themes in economic anthropology: a general comment -- Leonard Joy: One economist's view of the relationship between economics and anthropology -- Ronald Frankenberg: Economic anthopology: one anthropologitst's view -- Percy S. Cohen: Economic analysis and economic man: some comments on a controversy -- Mary Douglas: Primitive rationing: a study in controlled exchange -- Fredrik Barth: Economic spheres in Darfur -- Leonard Joy: An economic homologue of Barths's presentation of Economic spheres in Darfur -- Sutti Ortiz: The structure of decision-making among Indians of Colombia -- Scarlett Epstein: Productive efficiency and customary systems of rewards in rural South India -- Lorraine Baric: Traditional groups and new economic opportunities in rural Yugoslavia -- Notes on contributors -- Index
Note:
Enthält 10 Beiträgex, 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.ISBN0422725404042272540 (pbk.)"[M]aterial presented at a conference on economic anthropology [...] and held at St. Antony's College, Univeristy of Oxford, 28-30 June 1965" (Rückseite des Titelblattes)
