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Economies and cultures : foundations of economic anthropology.

This second edition contains an entirely new chapter on gifts and exchange as well as a thoroughly updated bibliography and guide for students for finding case studies in economic anthropology.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilk, Richard R.
Otros Autores: Cliggett, Lisa, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2007.
Edición:2nd ed. /
Colección:Anthropology online.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Economic anthropology: an undisciplined discipline
  • Controversy and social science
  • The formalist-substantivist debate
  • Economic anthropology after the Great Debate
  • Can there be a conclusion?
  • Notes
  • Economics and the problem of human nature
  • Defining the economy
  • Redefining economic anthropology
  • Notes
  • Self-interest and neoclassical microeconomics
  • Adam Smith and the birth of western economics
  • The foundations of modern economics
  • Neoclassical microeconomics
  • Critiques of formal economics
  • Summary: Reconciling self-interest and selflessness
  • Notes
  • Social and political economy
  • Social humans
  • Power and politicis
  • Durkheim and the social organism
  • Karl Marx: putting politics into the economy
  • Varieties of social and political economy
  • Summary: The problems of structure and agency
  • Notes
  • The moral human: cultural economics
  • Morals, ideology, symbols
  • The roots of moral economics
  • The question of rationality and culture
  • Problems with cultural economics
  • Cultural economics, round two
  • Summary: How much does culture determine?
  • Notes
  • Gifts and exchange
  • Three analyses of potlatching
  • But what is a gift?
  • Linking Mauss and Marx
  • Reciprocity and gifting
  • Accumulating value in the gift
  • Beyond value
  • Mutual recognition and the gift
  • Conclusions
  • Note
  • Conclusions: Complex economic human beings
  • The case of the leaking houses
  • The problem of explaining things
  • Resolving the fundamental issues
  • Rethinking human nature
  • Conclusions
  • Note.