Explorations in Economic Anthropology

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.

“The volume offers an appreciable contribution, especially for those who are new to economic anthropology since it presents key concepts and debates of contemporary anthropology and offers a privileged access point to this field…[It] keeps the promise of its title representing an accessible repertoire of reflections capable of highlighting an important segment of the recent development of economic anthropology.” • Anthropos“This is an impressive collection of essays that spans a huge array of themes, topics, writing styles and historical periods… The volume as a whole brings up lively conversations about a variety of themes in economic anthropology, and groups of the contributions can be used for class teaching on particular themes.” • Minh Nguyen, Bielefeld University

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Chris Hann and the Anthropological Study of Economic LifeKirsten W. Endres and Deema KaneffPart I: Reconsidering (Post)Socialist SpacesChapter 1. Civilizations and Economies: Notes on a Neglected ThemeJohann P. ArnasonChapter 2. From Halecki to Hann: The Historiography of Historical RegionsStefan TroebstChapter 3. Out of The Frying Pan and into The Fire, or Modernization Forever? Economic Strategies in the Transformation of Peasant SocietiesMihály SárkányChapter 4. Something to Be Nostalgic About? Goulash Socialist and Postsocialist Rural Society in HungaryNigel SwainChapter 5. Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone: The Indivisibility of Economic and Discursive Aspects in Neoliberal and Populist Regimes in PolandMichał BuchowskiChapter 6. Making a Reality of Other People’s Fictions: A Smithian Critique of Post-Marxian and Polányi-ite Accounts of ExploitationMichael StewartChapter 7. Resilience and Surveillance in Hann’s EurasiaSteven SampsonPart II: Economic Anthropology in a Changing WorldChapter 8. Hijra, Port and Market: Pre-Ottoman Economies in South-West Arabia's Zaydi RealmAndre GingrichChapter 9. From Social Norms to Legal Norms: Regulating Work in Post-Neoliberal Political EconomiesRuth Dukes and Wolfgang StreeckChapter 10. The Moral Economy of Anthropological ScholarshipMonica HeintzChapter 11. Some Thoughts on Embeddedness, Value and the Moral Dimension in the Work of Chris HannFrances PineChapter 12. Property, Resources and Gauging Social ChangeDeema KaneffChapter 13. Birth, Property, and the Male Descendant: Some Evidence from IndiaChris GregoryChapter 14. What Has Happened to Turkish Tea? Thoughts on a Cash Crop, the Turkish State and Society in this MillenniumLale Yalçin-HeckmannPart III: Economies of the Sacred and SecularChapter 15. Economy is a RitualStephen GudemanChapter 16. The Rice, the Rice Goddess and the Sickle: An Agricultural ‘Revolution’ among the Bru of Khe Sanh, 1989Gábor VargyasChapter 17. The Dharma and the Dime: Money and Buddhist MoralityChristoph BrumannChapter 18. Stealing Goddesses: The Political Economy of Kingship in Premodern IndiaBurkhard SchnepelChapter 19. Dalits and the Market: Liberation or Oppression?David GellnerChapter 20. Polanyi Goes to Mauritius: Economy and Society in the PostcolonyThomas Hylland EriksenPublications by Chris HannIndex