Edited by Donald C. Wood, Department of Medical Education, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan

• Introduction: Anthropological Explorations of Incongruous Perspectives in the Economics of Ecology, Exchange, and AdaptationPART I: CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT, AND CONSERVATIONRegulating the Ogallala: Paradox and Ambiguity in Western Kansas - Jane W. Gibson and Benjamin J. GrayContested Understandings of Sustainability and Climate Issues in Southern Costa Rica - Julia SmithClimate Variability in West Africa: A Case Study in Vulnerability and Adaptation on the Northern Central Plateau, Burkina Faso - Colin Thor West, Carla Roncoli and Pascal YakaContested Affluence: Cultural Politics of Pashmina Wealth and Wildlife Conservation in Ladakh - Alka SabharwalPART II: NEGOTIATING THE SOCIAL AND THE ECONOMIC IN EXCHANGE RELATIONSMaximizing Social Proximity in Market Relations: The Networks of Nigerian Immigrant Business Owners in New York City - Leila Rodriguez the Hau of the Theft: Reciprocity,Reputation and the Koh-I-Noor Diamond - Daniel Bradburdthe Space Between Community and Self-interest: Conflict and the Experience of Exchange in Heroin Markets - Lee D. Hoffer Suburban Drug Dealing: A Case Study in Ambivalent Economics - David CrawfordPART III: ADAPTATIONS TO SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONSPerforming Anonymity: Investors, Brokers, and the Malleability of Material Identity Information in Financial Markets - Aaron Z. PitluckThe Creation of a Local Innovation Ecosystem in Japan for Nurturing Global Entrepreneurs - Liv Nyland KrauseExploring the Interactions: Plot-Level Analysis of Maragoli Women Farmers’ Crop Control and Yields in Western Kenya - Edwins Laban Moogi GwakoThe Alternative Economics of Alternative Healing: Faith-Based Therapies in Brazil’s Religious Marketplace - Sidney M. Greenfield

Edited by Donald C. Wood, Department of Medical Education, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan

• Introduction: Anthropological Explorations of Incongruous Perspectives in the Economics of Ecology, Exchange, and AdaptationPART I: CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT, AND CONSERVATIONRegulating the Ogallala: Paradox and Ambiguity in Western Kansas - Jane W. Gibson and Benjamin J. GrayContested Understandings of Sustainability and Climate Issues in Southern Costa Rica - Julia SmithClimate Variability in West Africa: A Case Study in Vulnerability and Adaptation on the Northern Central Plateau, Burkina Faso - Colin Thor West, Carla Roncoli and Pascal YakaContested Affluence: Cultural Politics of Pashmina Wealth and Wildlife Conservation in Ladakh - Alka SabharwalPART II: NEGOTIATING THE SOCIAL AND THE ECONOMIC IN EXCHANGE RELATIONSMaximizing Social Proximity in Market Relations: The Networks of Nigerian Immigrant Business Owners in New York City - Leila Rodriguez the Hau of the Theft: Reciprocity,Reputation and the Koh-I-Noor Diamond - Daniel Bradburdthe Space Between Community and Self-interest: Conflict and the Experience of Exchange in Heroin Markets - Lee D. Hoffer Suburban Drug Dealing: A Case Study in Ambivalent Economics - David CrawfordPART III: ADAPTATIONS TO SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONSPerforming Anonymity: Investors, Brokers, and the Malleability of Material Identity Information in Financial Markets - Aaron Z. PitluckThe Creation of a Local Innovation Ecosystem in Japan for Nurturing Global Entrepreneurs - Liv Nyland KrauseExploring the Interactions: Plot-Level Analysis of Maragoli Women Farmers’ Crop Control and Yields in Western Kenya - Edwins Laban Moogi GwakoThe Alternative Economics of Alternative Healing: Faith-Based Therapies in Brazil’s Religious Marketplace - Sidney M. Greenfield

Edited by Donald C. Wood, Department of Medical Education, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan

• Introduction: Anthropological Explorations of Incongruous Perspectives in the Economics of Ecology, Exchange, and AdaptationPART I: CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT, AND CONSERVATIONRegulating the Ogallala: Paradox and Ambiguity in Western Kansas - Jane W. Gibson and Benjamin J. GrayContested Understandings of Sustainability and Climate Issues in Southern Costa Rica - Julia SmithClimate Variability in West Africa: A Case Study in Vulnerability and Adaptation on the Northern Central Plateau, Burkina Faso - Colin Thor West, Carla Roncoli and Pascal YakaContested Affluence: Cultural Politics of Pashmina Wealth and Wildlife Conservation in Ladakh - Alka SabharwalPART II: NEGOTIATING THE SOCIAL AND THE ECONOMIC IN EXCHANGE RELATIONSMaximizing Social Proximity in Market Relations: The Networks of Nigerian Immigrant Business Owners in New York City - Leila Rodriguez the Hau of the Theft: Reciprocity,Reputation and the Koh-I-Noor Diamond - Daniel Bradburdthe Space Between Community and Self-interest: Conflict and the Experience of Exchange in Heroin Markets - Lee D. Hoffer Suburban Drug Dealing: A Case Study in Ambivalent Economics - David CrawfordPART III: ADAPTATIONS TO SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONSPerforming Anonymity: Investors, Brokers, and the Malleability of Material Identity Information in Financial Markets - Aaron Z. PitluckThe Creation of a Local Innovation Ecosystem in Japan for Nurturing Global Entrepreneurs - Liv Nyland KrauseExploring the Interactions: Plot-Level Analysis of Maragoli Women Farmers’ Crop Control and Yields in Western Kenya - Edwins Laban Moogi GwakoThe Alternative Economics of Alternative Healing: Faith-Based Therapies in Brazil’s Religious Marketplace - Sidney M. Greenfield