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Economic Anthropology
Conventional economic thought sees the economy as the sum of market transactions carried out by rational individuals deciding how to allocate their resources among the various things on offer that would satisfy their desires. Economic anthropologists see things differently. For them, the focus is th...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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[S.l.] :
AGENDA PUBLISHING,
2021.
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| Series: | The economy : key ideas
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of 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
- Classics
- What economic anthropologists do
- Topics and concepts in economic anthropology
- Journals
- References
- Index