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Economic action in theory and practice : anthropological investigations /
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 geographic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bingley, UK :
Emerald,
2010.
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| Colección: | Research in economic anthropology ;
v. 30. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Donald C. Wood
- Borrowed places: eviction wars and property rights formalization in Kazakhstan / Saulesh Yessenova
- Resolving the problem of inequality in the distribution of wealth in Brazil: approaches derived from the Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal, Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Louis Kelso / Sidney M. Greenfield
- Is Joseph Schumpeter's theory of economic development still useful? The case of a semi-rural community in Colombia / Andrés Marroquín Gramajo
- Compadrazgo networks and immigrant adaptation in a Nevada town / Tamar Diana Wilson
- The domestic economy and its implications for social complexity: Spondylus craft production in coastal Ecuador / Alexander J. Martín
- Donkey bazaar, a bazaar of Hell: an investigation into donkeys and donkey trading in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China / Ayxem Eli
- Urban food provisioning in Cameroon: regional banana plantain networks linking Yaounde and the villages of Koumou and Oban / Tite Ngoumou
- Hostile worlds and questionable speculation: recognizing the plurality of views about art and the market / Erica Coslor
- Agents of hybridity: class, culture brokers, and the entrepreneurial imagination in cosmopolitan Cairo / Mark Allen Peterson
- Early markets and the market cross / George Williams
- Shifting transactional identities: bazaar-style trade and risk management in the prestige economy of the Gabor Roma (Romania) / Péter Berta
- Reverse osmosis and a can of beans: an ethnographic study of Latin American immigrant shoppers in Nashville, Tennessee / Peter Redvers-Lee
- Working hard and staying safe: drilling rig hands in Alberta / Dan E. Houser
- Book review: Market and society: The great transformation today, Chris Hann and Keith Hart, Eds. / James R. Stanfield.