Economic action in theory and practice anthropological investigations /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Wood, Donald C.
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2010.
• Σειρά: Research in economic anthropology ; v. 30.
• Θέματα: Economic anthropology.; Economic development.; Markets.; Identity (Psychology) > Economic aspects.; Social & cultural anthropology.; Anthropology.; Social Science > Anthropology > General.; Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural.

This volume contains 14 original chapters focusing on various aspects of economic organization and behaviour, mostly based on empirical fieldwork conducted by the authors themselves. It is a well-balanced collection of chapters on economic issues studied anthropologically, not only in its geographic...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction / Donald C. Wood
• Borrowed places: eviction wars and property rights formalization in Kazakhstan / Saulesh Yessenova
• Resolving the problem of inequality in the distribution of wealth in Brazil: approaches derived from the Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal, Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Louis Kelso / Sidney M. Greenfield
• Is Joseph Schumpeter's theory of economic development still useful? The case of a semi-rural community in Colombia / Andrés Marroquín Gramajo
• Compadrazgo networks and immigrant adaptation in a Nevada town / Tamar Diana Wilson
• The domestic economy and its implications for social complexity: Spondylus craft production in coastal Ecuador / Alexander J. Martín
• Donkey bazaar, a bazaar of Hell: an investigation into donkeys and donkey trading in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China / Ayxem Eli
• Urban food provisioning in Cameroon: regional banana plantain networks linking Yaounde and the villages of Koumou and Oban / Tite Ngoumou
• Hostile worlds and questionable speculation: recognizing the plurality of views about art and the market / Erica Coslor
• Agents of hybridity: class, culture brokers, and the entrepreneurial imagination in cosmopolitan Cairo / Mark Allen Peterson
• Early markets and the market cross / George Williams
• Shifting transactional identities: bazaar-style trade and risk management in the prestige economy of the Gabor Roma (Romania) / Péter Berta
• Reverse osmosis and a can of beans: an ethnographic study of Latin American immigrant shoppers in Nashville, Tennessee / Peter Redvers-Lee
• Working hard and staying safe: drilling rig hands in Alberta / Dan E. Houser
• Book review: Market and society: The great transformation today, Chris Hann and Keith Hart, Eds. / James R. Stanfield.