| Description |
1 online resource (336 pages) |
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HAU - Classics in Ethnographic Theory |
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HAU - Classics in Ethnographic Theory
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| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Foreword by Marilyn Strathern; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Concepts; I. The competing theories; II. A framework of analysis; III. Gifts and commodities: Circulation; IV. Gifts and commodities: Reproduction; V. Traditional and modern goods: A critique; Part Two: Theory; VI. The transformation of gifts into commodities in colonial Papua New Guinea; VII. The transformation of commodities into gifts in colonial Papua New Guinea; Conclusion |
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Mathematical appendix: A matrix approach to the calculusof kinship relationsReferences; Index |
| Summary |
Annotation Christopher A. Gregory's Gifts and commodities is one of the undisputed classics of economic anthropology. On its publication in 1982, it spurred intense, ongoing debates about gifts and gifting, value, exchange, and the place of political economy in anthropology.Gifts and commodities is, at once, a critique of neoclassical economics and development theory, a critical history of colonial Papua New Guinea, and a comparative ethnography of exchange in Melanesian societies. This new edition includes a foreword by anthropologist Marilyn Strathern and a new preface by the author that discusses the ongoing response to the book and the debates it has engendered, debates that have become more salient in our evermore neoliberal and globalized era |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-237) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Economic anthropology.
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Economic development.
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economic development.
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Economic development.
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Economic anthropology.
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Ökonomische Anthropologie
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Wirtschaftsentwicklung
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Wirtschaftstheorie
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Entwicklungshilfe
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Politische Ökonomie
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Papua-Neuguinea
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Strathern, Marilyn
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| ISBN |
9781912808106 |
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1912808102 |
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9780990505013 |
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0990505014 |
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