Stone age economics

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This paperback copy inscribes itself in the current anthropological controversy between "formalist" and "substantivist" pracitices of economic theory. The aim of the book is merely to perpetuate the possibility of an anthropological economic by a few concrete examples.

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Full title :Stone age economics.

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Publication Date:©1972.

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Publisher(s):Aldine Pub. Co
Place of Publication:Chicago
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1972.

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Description:348 pages : : illustrations ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0202010996, 9780202010991
oclc:ocn243482376
LC Classification:GN489
Dewey Decimal:306.3

Introduction / Stephen Gudeman -- pt. I Theories: 1 The Social Context of Economic Choice in a Small Society / Manning Nash -- 2 Economic Behavior in Markets / Stuart Plattner -- 3 The Limits of Formalism in Agricultural Decision Research / Allen Johnson -- 4 Infrastructures, Societies, and History / Maurice Godelier -- 5 The Genesis of Capitalism Amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil's Labor and the Baptism of Money / Michael Taussig -- 6 On the Sociology of Primitive Exchange / Marshall D. Sahlins -- 7 The Gift, the Indian Gift and the "Indian Gift" / Jonathan Parry -- 8 Physiocracy: a Natural Economics / Stephen Gudeman -- 9 The House / Stephen Gudeman, Alberto Rivera -- 10 Beyond "The Original Affluent Society": A Culturalist Reformulation / Nurit Bird-David -- pt. II Processes: Production: 11 Capital, Investment and the Social Structure of a Pastoral Nomad Group in South Persia / Fredrik Barth -- 12 Farms and Produce (Yiagh) / Paul Bohannan, Laura Bohannan -- 13 Land Rights: Social Relations in Terrestrial Space / Paul Bohannan, Laura Bohannan -- 14 The Wet and the Dry: Traditional Irrigation in Bali and Morocco / Clifford Geertz -- 15 The Sinhalese of the Dry Zone of Nor…