Theory in economic anthropology
This title examines the contributions of anthropologists to general economic theory. The contributors challenge our understanding of human economies in the expanding global systems of interaction, with models and analyses from cross-cultural research.
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- Full title :Theory in economic anthropology / edited by Jean Ensminger.
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This title examines the contributions of anthropologists to general economic theory. The contributors challenge our understanding of human economies in the expanding global systems of interaction, with models and analyses from cross-cultural research.
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- Publication Date:©2002.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Altamira Press
- Place of Publication:Walnut Creek, CA
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2002.
Notes
"Published in cooperaation with the Society for Economic Anthropology."
The Physical Object
- Description:xix, 316 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0759102058, 9780759102057, 0759102066, 9780759102064
- oclc:ocm47443973
- LC Classification:GN448
- Dewey Decimal:306.3
Table of Contents
Theory in economic anthropology at the turn of the century -- Property rights and incentives for agricultural growth: women farmers' crop control and their use of agricultural inputs -- Transaction cost economics: accomplishments, problems, and possibilities -- Experimental economics: a powerful new method for theory testing in anthropology -- Commodity flows and the evolution of complex societies -- Economic transfers and exchanges: concepts for describing allocations -- Polanyi and the definition of capitalism -- Chayanov and theory in economic anthropology -- Space, place, and economic anthropology: locating potters in a Sri Lankan landscape -- Indians, markets, and transnational studies in Mesoamerican anthropology: predicaments and opportunities -- Transcending the formal/informal distinction: commercial relations in Africa and Russia in the post-1989 world -- Commodity chains and the international secondhand clothing trade: Salaula and the work of consumption in Zambia -- When good theories go bad: theory in economic anthropology and consumer research -- Decision making, cultural transmission, and adaptation in economic anthropology.
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