Production, consumption, business and the economy structural ideals and moral realities /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Wood, Donald C.
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014.
• Σειρά: Research in economic anthropology ; v. 34.
• Θέματα: Social Science > Anthropology > General.; Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural.; Anthropology.; Sociology & anthropology.; Economic anthropology.; Economics > Moral and ethical aspects.

This thirty-fourth volume in the REA series contains fourteen chapters by a variety of researchers touching on a wide range of topics in economic anthropology and covering a vast geographical area. The chapters are divided into four sections: one focusing on commodities and their social meanings and...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The English enlightenment and "the economy" : how some men with a vision created the modern world and its problems / Sidney M. Greenfield
• Proprietary contest, business ethics and conflict management : a multi-sited commodity ethnography / Péter Berta
• Three shades of embeddedness : state capitalism as the informal economy, emic notions of the anti-market and counterfeit garments in the Mauritian export processing zone / Patrick Neveling
• Japanese "merchants of culture" : the publishing business in Japan / Brian Moeran
• "Is it really islamic?" Evaluating the "Islam" in Islamic banking in Amman, Jordan / Sarah A. Tobin
• Financialization and financial labour : ethnographies of finance and "ethnographic reflections" on British retail stockbroking / Alexander Parkinson
• BMW : mastering the crises with "new efficiency?" / Ludger Pries, Martin Seeliger
• Redefining the meaning of land : property rights and land use in a privatized commons in Kenya / Carolyn K. Lesorogol
• Trial and error, study and sweat : Yoshida Saburos smallholding in northeastern Japan, 1935 / Donald C. Wood
• Self-employed women in the informal economy : beach vendors in Acapulco / Tamar Diana Wilson
• Women's autonomy and microcredit repayment delay / Kristiano Raccanello
• The labor topography of central highland Guatemala youth : employment diversification, health, and education in the context of poverty / Liliana Goldín
• The integration of periodic markets in Mayan Guatemala : a gravity approach / E. Anthon Eff, Christa D. Jensen
• The flow of goods and service in hierarchically ordered rural societies : patronage, clientage and the Livro Da Vertuoso Bemfeitoria of the Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal / Sidney M. Greenfield.