Economic Anthropology /

This accessible and authoritative overview of the subdiscipline of economic anthropology defines and frames the field for a new generation of students in search of an inspiring and fresh way of looking at the economic world.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carrier G. James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing, 2021.
Edición:1st.
Temas:
Economic anthropology.
Anthropologie économique.
Economic anthropology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introducing economic anthropology
  • Changing economic anthropology
  • 1 Production and what is produced
  • Ponam fishing
  • Colombian peasants
  • Jamaican fishermen
  • 2 Changing production
  • Cottage industry
  • Putting out
  • Early factory production
  • Modern factory production
  • The purpose of production
  • 3 Circulation, identity, relationship and order
  • Identity and relationship
  • Moka, peace and order
  • Controlling circulation
  • 4 Gifts and commodities
  • Obligation, alienation, relationship
  • Obligation
  • Alienation
  • Property and possession
  • 5 Commercial circulation
  • The old order
  • Disembedding
  • Institutional changes
  • 6 Considering Christmas
  • Christmas giving
  • Gifts and commodities once more
  • The spirit of Christmas past
  • 7 Consumption and meaning
  • Ordering consumption
  • Communication about the self
  • Communication about others
  • 8 Consumption in context
  • Consuming for social relations
  • Consuming in social relations
  • Consuming for gain
  • Becoming consumers
  • Afterword
  • Further reading
  • References
  • Index

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