Anthropology and Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anthropology and Economy write by Stephen Gudeman. This book was released on 2016-01-05. Anthropology and Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. Across these spheres, economy incorporates a tension between self-interested rationality and the mutuality of social relationships. Even when rational processes predominate, as in markets, economies rely on sociability and ritual to operate, whether as cronyism, pleas to divinities or the magical persuasions of advertising. Drawing on data and concepts from anthropology and economics, the book addresses wealth inequality, resource depletion, and environmental devastation especially in capitalism, providing an understanding of their persistence and ideas for controlling them. Given the recent financial crash, Gudeman offers a different understanding of the crisis and suggestions for achieving greater economic stability.
Economic Anthropology
Economic Anthropology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Economic Anthropology write by Chris Hann. This book was released on 2018-06-11. Economic Anthropology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropologists have contributed to understanding the three great questions of modern economic history: development, socialism and one-world capitalism. In doing so, they connect economic anthropology to its roots in Western philosophy, social theory and world history. Up to the Second World War anthropologists tried and failed to interest economists in their exotic findings. They then launched a vigorous debate over whether an approach taken from economics was appropriate to the study of non-industrial economies. Since the 1970s, they have developed a critique of capitalism based on studying it at home as well as abroad. The authors aim to rejuvenate economic anthropology as a humanistic project at a time when the global financial crisis has undermined confidence in free market economics. They argue for the continued relevance of predecessors such as Marcel Mauss and Karl Polanyi, while offering an incisive review of recent work in this field. Economic Anthropology is an excellent introduction for social science students at all levels, and it presents general readers with a challenging perspective on the world economy today. Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title
Economies and Cultures
Economies and Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Economies and Cultures write by Richard R Wilk. This book was released on 2018-05-04. Economies and Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book introduces economic anthropology to countries where it has never been taught before, including Vietnam, China, Brazil, Argentina, and Italy. It identifies the fundamental practical and theoretical problems that give economic anthropology its unique strengths and vision.
Anthropology and the Economy of Sharing
Anthropology and the Economy of Sharing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anthropology and the Economy of Sharing write by Thomas Widlok. This book was released on 2016-10-04. Anthropology and the Economy of Sharing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the economy of sharing in a variety of social and political contexts around the world, with consideration given to the role of sharing in relation to social order and social change, political power, group formation, individual networks and concepts of personhood. Widlok advocates a refreshingly broad comparative approach to our understanding of sharing, with a rich range of material from hunter-gatherer ethnography alongside debates and empirical illustrations from globalized society, helping students to avoid Western economic bias in their thinking. Anthropology and the Economy of Sharing also demonstrates that sharing is distinct from gift-giving, exchange and reciprocity, which have become dominant themes in economic anthropology, and suggests that a new focus on sharing will have significant repercussions for anthropological theory. Breaking new ground in this key topic, this volume provides students with a coherent and accessible overview of the economy of sharing from an anthropological perspective.
Anthropology and Economy
Anthropology and Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anthropology and Economy write by Stephen Gudeman. This book was released on 2016-01-07. Anthropology and Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offering a uniquely cross-cultural perspective, renowned economic anthropologist Stephen Gudeman presents a theory of economic crisis and lessons for its mitigation, in light of the recent global financial crash. This compelling book is richly illustrated with examples from 'strange' small-scale economies as well as developed market economies.
