A Handbook of Economic Anthropology, Second Edition
Edited by
James G. Carrier
Senior Research Associate in Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University, UK and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Edward Elgar Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA Contents
List of contributors IX
Preface and acknowledgements XVlll
Introduction James G. Carrier
PARTI ORIENTATIONS
Karl Polanyi 13 Barry L. Isaac
2 Anthropology, political economy and world-system theory 26 J.S. Eades
3 Political economy 41 Don Robotham
4 Decisions and choices: the rationality of economic actors 58 Sutti Ortiz
5 Provisioning 77 Susana Narotzky
6 Community and economy: economy's base 95 Stephen Gudeman
PART II ELEMENTS
7 Property 111 Mark Busse
8 Labour 128 E. Paul Durrenberger
9 Industrial work 145 Jonathan Parry
10 Money in twentieth-century anthropology 166 Keith Hart
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11 Finance 2.0 183 Bill Maurer
12 Distribution and redistribution 202 Thomas C. Patterson
13 Consumption 220 Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld
PART III CIRCULATION
14 Ceremonial exchange: debates and comparisons 239 Andrew Strathem and Pamela J. Stewart
15 Markets: places, principles and integrations 257 Kalman Applhaum
16 The gift and gift economy 275 Yunxiang Yan
17 One-way economic transfers 291 Robert C. Hunt
PART IV INTEGRATIONS
18 Gender 307 Maila Stivens
19 Environment and economy 325 Eric Hirsch
20 Culture and economy 344 Michael Blim
21 Economy and religion 361 Simon Coleman
22 Economies of ethnicity 377 Thomas Hylland Eriksen
PARTY ISSUES
23 Economic anthropology and ethics 397 Peter Luetchford
24 Households and their markets in the Andes 413 Enrique Mayer Contents vii
25 Peasants 433 Mark Harris
26 Economic valuations and environmental policy 451 Catherine Alexander
27 Anthropology and development: the uneasy relationship 469 David Lewis
28 The informal economy in comparative perspective 485 Martha Alter Chen
PART VI REGIONS
29 South America 501 Terry Roopnaraine
30 Africa south of the Sahara 512 Mahir §aul
31 South Asia 529 John Harriss
32 East Asia 542 J.S. Eades
33 Towards an economic anthropology of Europe 553 Valeria Siniscalchi
PART VII THE CRISIS
34 Oligarchy and state capture: Soviet-style mechanisms in contemporary finance capitalism 571 Don Kalb and Oane Visser
35 Anthropology - of the financial crisis 585 Horacio Ortiz
36 Economic crisis, 2008: what happened, what can be learned about how and why, what could happen next 597 Michael Blim
37 Terms of debate versus words in circulation: some rhetorics of the crisis 612 Jane I. Guyer viii A handbook oj economic anthropology, second edition
38 The financial crisis and the history of money Keith Hart
Index