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Research in Economic Anthropology
Inbunden, 1997
1591 kr
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Explores research in economic anthropology. This title examines topics such as rethinking the informal economy; specialization, exchange and power in small-scale societies and chiefdoms; and, approaches to prehistoric economies.
Research in Economic Anthropology
Inbunden, 1984
1591 kr
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This is the 19th volume in a series of research in economic anthropology. It covers: studies of Otavalo, Ecuador; commoditization; women as consumers and producers; subsistence and market production - Siberia, Mexico, Sierra Leone; and, complex prehistoric economies - Louisiana and Illinois.
Research in Economic Anthropology
Inbunden, 2000
1298 kr
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This volume contains 11 papers covering: Women as Artisans from Colombia and the Phillippines; Money and Witchcraft from Niger and Tanzania; Resistance to Economic Development for Canada, Mexico and the US; Changing Rural Economies from Guatemala and Kenya; and Ethnoarchaeological Studies with the …
Social Dimensions in the Economic Process
Av Norbert Dannhaeuser, Cynthia Werner
Inbunden, 2002
2233 kr
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The general theme of "Social Dimensions in the Economic Process" is an old one in economic anthropology. On the abstract end it involves, first, the degree of social content of individual transactions and, second, how economic processes relate to social structure. More specifically, the theme …
Anthropological Perspectives on Economic Development and Integration
Av Norbert Dannhaeuser, Cynthia Werner
Inbunden, 2003
1994 kr
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The collection of original contributions in this volume of "Research in Economic Anthropology" addresses two recurrent themes in economic anthropology. These are the process of economic development and the basis on which economic integration takes place. The development theme is divided between …
Socioeconomic Aspects of Human Behavioral Ecology
Av M. Alvard
Inbunden, 2004
2123 kr
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As a field, anthropology brings an explicit evolutionary approach to the study of human behavior. Each of anthropology's four main subfields - sociocultural, biological, archaeology, and linguistic anthropology - acknowledges that Homo sapiens has a long evolutionary history that must be …
Markets and Market Liberalization
Ethnographic Reflections
Av C. Werner, Norbert Dannhaeuser
Inbunden, 2006
1438 kr
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The general theme of Volume 24 is the impact of, and reaction to, the spread of market systems and market liberalization by local communities. Part I examines cases in which migration has opened new market and entrepreneurial opportunities to local populations. Part II contains cases that describe …
Choice in Economic Contexts
Ethnographic and Theoretical Enquiries
Inbunden, 2006
1695 kr
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This 25th volume in the "Research in Economic Anthropology" series contains 12 original papers, nine empirical ethnographic studies and three theoretical essays - all linked by a common concern with economic choice in various social and cultural situations, and authored by researchers in …
Economics of Health and Wellness
Anthropological Perspectives
Inbunden, 2007
1290 kr
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This 26th volume in the "Research in Economic Anthropology" series differs in two main ways from all those that have come before. For one, it is the first "REA" volume to focus exclusively on the issue of health. In addition, it is not as concerned overall with economic or social theory, or with …
Dimensions of Ritual Economy
Inbunden, 2008
1172 kr
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Increasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values and beliefs as motivational factors. Conversely, the economic underpinnings of ritual practice are under-theorized and therefore not accessible to economists …
Economic Action in Theory and Practice
Anthropological Investigations
Inbunden, 2010
1939 kr
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This volume contains 14 original chapters focusing on various aspects of economic organization and behaviour, mostly based on empirical fieldwork conducted by the authors themselves. It is a well-balanced collection of chapters on economic issues studied anthropologically, not only in its …
Economics of Religion
Anthropological Approaches
Av Lionel Obadia, Donald C. Wood
Inbunden, 2011
1463 kr
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"The Economics of Religion" explores the new paradigms of "religious economics" and "economies of religion" under the scope of transdisciplinary and international perspectives. It examines and appraises some of the recent theoretical developments and methodological innovations in religious and …
Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and the Prehistoric Economies of Latin America
Av Ty Matejowsky, Donald C. Wood
Inbunden, 2012
1393 kr
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Volume 32 of REA continues the series' on-going presentation of new and highly engaging anthropological research. Chapters contained herein reflect the diverse range of broad based and localized topics economic anthropologists currently explore from various critical perspectives. Spanning deep …
Dimensions of Ritual Economy
Häftad, 2012
553 kr
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Increasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values and beliefs as motivational factors. Conversely, the economic underpinnings of ritual practice are under-theorized and therefore not accessible to economists …
Hidden Hands in the Market
Ethnographies of Fair Trade, Ethical Consumption and Corporate Social Responsibility
Av Peter Luetchford, Geert De Neve m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
569 kr
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In much of the world's economy, production, exchange and consumption are regulated by the Market, which is widely believed to be based on economic rationality and driven by a desire to consume. But there are different views of how the Market operates, or ought to operate. This collection of essays …
Engaging with Capitalism
Cases from Oceania
Av Fiona McCormack, Kate Barclay
Inbunden, 2013
637 kr
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For several decades people have been grappling with how to retain the material safety and cultural richness of indigenous non-capitalist societies and economies, but also gain the health, wealth, education and life opportunities the modern capitalist world offers. This book brings together examples …
Production, Consumption, Business and the Economy
Structural Ideals and Moral Realities
Inbunden, 2014
1701 kr
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This thirty fourth volume in the REA series contains fourteen chapters by a variety of researchers touching on a wide range of topics in economic anthropology and covering a vast geographical area. The chapters are divided into four sections: one focusing on commodities and their social meanings …
Climate Change, Culture, and Economics
Anthropological Investigations
Inbunden, 2015
1617 kr
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It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny that human activity is a factor in global climate change. This special volume of REA facilitates readers to better understand the ways in which people around the world have adapted (or failed to adapt) culturally to changing economic conditions caused …
Engaging with Capitalism
Cases from Oceania
Av Fiona McCormack, Kate Barclay
Häftad, 2013
595 kr
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For several decades people have been grappling with how to retain the material safety and cultural richness of indigenous non-capitalist societies and economies, but also gain the health, wealth, education and life opportunities the modern capitalist world offers. This book brings together examples …
Economics of Ecology, Exchange, and Adaptation
Anthropological Explorations
Inbunden, 2016
1478 kr
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This volume consists of three sections connected by the elucidation of differences in perspective between people and polities. The first, concentrating on ecology, serves in part to further explore the theme of climate change. It looks into aquifer usage and ecology in the Midwestern United States, …
Anthropological Considerations of Production, Exchange, Vending and Tourism
Inbunden, 2017
1281 kr
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Volume 37 of REA features eleven original articles organized in four different sections, each focusing on a specific, popular and significant theme in economic anthropology: production, exchange, vending, and tourism. The first section investigates the brewing (and selling) of homemade beer among …
Politics and Ethics of the Just Price
Ethnographies of Market Exchange
Av Peter Luetchford, Giovanni Orlando
Inbunden, 2019
1057 kr
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Prices permeate contemporary life. From the cost of basic foodstuffs in developing countries to the pay of CEOs in rich ones, the question of the politics and ethics of pricing everything through the market dominates public life. At the same time, we know that dilemmas about how to value fairly, …
Individual and Social Adaptions to Human Vulnerability
Inbunden, 2018
1211 kr
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This volume of Research in Economic Anthropology, which presents ten peer-reviewed anthropological papers, celebrates the 40th anniversary of the series by taking a close look at human vulnerability: the ways in which people attempt to cope with it and barriers to successfully overcoming it. The …
Infrastructure, Morality, Food and Clothing, and New Developments in Latin America
Inbunden, 2021
1305 kr
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Volume 41 of Research in Economic Anthropology explores a wide range of topics of interest to economic anthropology. The opening paper presents a novel approach to anthropological-economic infrastructural research in England, specifically London’s Thames Tideway Tunnel. The volume’s first section …
Current Problems of the World Economy and International Trade
Av Elena G. Popkova, Inna V. Andronova
Inbunden, 2022
1218 kr
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Volume 42 of Research in Economic Anthropology focuses on systemic coverage, critical rethinking, and scientific analysis of the current problems facing the world economy and international trade aiming to provide a scientific basis for learning from the COVID-19 pandemic for the global economy and …
Political Economy of Intimate Life
Social Reproduction Revisited
Inbunden, 2027
1161 kr
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Social Reproductive Theory (SRT) itself has now long been a key theoretical framework to analyze the inseparable relationships between the private and the public, production and reproduction, production and consumption, exchange value and other forms of value, labor power and social power, class …
Health, Money, Commerce, and Wealth
Anthropological Perspectives
Inbunden, 2024
1127 kr
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Volume 43 of Research in Economic Anthropology covers an extensive range of important topics with an equally wide geographic perspective. Grounded in fieldwork undertaken in West Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America, articles are broadly concerned with money, commerce, and wealth, with …
Anthropological Enquiries Into Policy, Debt, Business And Capitalism
Inbunden, 2020
1267 kr
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Volume 40 of Research in Economic Anthropology explores current issues in national and international policy, cost and debt, business and capitalism, and economic theory and behavior specifically pertaining to Brazil. The underlying theme running through the collection is the steady encroachment of …
Hidden Hands in the Market
Ethnographies of Fair Trade, Ethical Consumption and Corporate Social Responsibility
Av Peter Luetchford, Geert De Neve m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1639 kr
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In much of the world's economy, production, exchange and consumption are regulated by the Market, which is widely believed to be based on economic rationality and driven by a desire to consume. But there are different views of how the Market operates, or ought to operate. This collection of essays …
Economic Development, Integration, and Morality in Asia and the Americas
Inbunden, 2009
2073 kr
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This 29th volume in the "Research in Economic Anthropology" series explores economic development, integration, and morality in economic transactions in Asia and the Americas through 14 original chapters based on ethnographic evidence collected by the authors. Under development, chapters look at, …
