Anthropology and Economy.
Comparative and critical, Anthropology and Economy offers a uniquely cross-cultural view of economy. Using examples from market and non-market situations, the book shows how economies are built on five increasingly abstract spheres, from the house to community, commerce, finance, and meta-finance. A...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | New departures in anthropology.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title ; Series information ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Table of contents ; List of figures ; Acknowledgments ; One Strange Economies ; Puzzles ; Anthropology's Lens ; Economy's secret ; Spheres of economy ; Seeing straight ; Two The Strength of the House.
- Panama and Colombia Models ; Economy's current ; The house ; Sharing strength-in the house ; Current or currency? ; Thrift ; Connections ; After thought and forward thoughts ; Three Mutuality and Connections ; Fellow feeling or self-interest? ; Is it reciprocity? ; Sharing.
- Bemba Spirits and Bisa Hunters The Nambicuara and Pilagá ; Mutuality in markets ; Four Rituals of Economy ; Ritual reconnaissance ; Spirits, souls, and ancestors ; Magicians ; Market magic ; Five From Celebrations to Sales ; Celebrating on the small ; Ceremonies and markets.
- Barter Calculative reason ; High jinx or high economy? ; Six Colonizing ; Rice, rents, and Ricardo ; Cash crops ; Ambiguities ; Calculated colonization ; Seven Money and Abstraction ; Is it money? ; Measure, means, and end ; Base money and pigs ; The Tolai and tambu money.
- Scrip money Spheres of market money ; The division of labor and finance ; Eight Rethinking Economy ; Blowouts and energy ; Inequality ; Distribution and rent seeking ; Trickle down of growth or rent expansion? ; Rebalancing market economy ; Self-interest and sharing.