Economic development, integration, and morality in Asia and the Americas

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Wood, Donald C.
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2009.
• Σειρά: Research in economic anthropology ; v. 29.
• Θέματα: Economic anthropology.; Economics.

This 29th volume in the Research in Economic Anthropology series explores economic development, integration, and morality in economic transactions in Asia and the Americas through 14 original chapters based on ethnographic evidence collected by the authors. Under development, chapters look at, among...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction : economic development, integration, and morality in Asia and the Americas / Donald C. Wood
• Underground lotteries in China : the occult economy and capitalist culture / Joseph Bosco, Lucia Huwy-Min Liu and Matthew West
• Supermarketization, consumer choices, and the changing food retail market structure : the case of Citlalicalli, Mexico / Jayant Anand
• A Master is greater than a father : rearrangements of tradition among Muslim artisans in Soviet and post-Soviet Uzbekistan / Haruka Kikuta
• Marketplace vendors, decision-making, and the household in Bolivia / Kathleen E. Gordon
• Gender, work, and opportunity in Oaxaca : some thoughts on the importance of women in the economic life of the rural village / Jeffrey H. Cohen, Brooke Everett, Analise Polsky and Francisco Montiel-Ishino
• money doesn't make the world go round : Angkors non-monetisation / Eileen Lustig
• Shifting coffee markets and producer responses in Costa Rica and Panama / Julia Smith
• Moving bodies : the intersections of sex, work, and tourism / J.S. Eades
• "Made in China" : political and cultural valuation of brand images, trade, and commodities : ethnographic evidence from Europe and Asia / Lionel Obadia
• The expansion of immigrant networks at origin : a case study of a rancho in Jalisco, Mexico / Tamar Diana Wilson
• Restaurant tipping : short-circuiting the morality of the market / Daniel Suarez
• Children as a common-pool resource : change and the shrinking kindergarten market in a Japanese city / Donald Wood
• "I bought this at eastern market" : vending, value, and social relations in an urban street market / Robert Shepherd
• Social capital as an incentive for participation and formation of women-dominant ROSCA / Kristiano Raccanello, Jayant Anand, Patricia Arroyo Martínez.