| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 236 p.) |
| Series |
Anthropology online |
| Contents |
Economic anthropology: an undisciplined discipline -- Controversy and social science -- The formalist-substantivist debate -- Economic anthropology after the Great Debate -- Can there be a conclusion? -- Notes -- Economics and the problem of human nature -- Defining the economy -- Redefining economic anthropology -- Notes -- Self-interest and neoclassical microeconomics -- Adam Smith and the birth of western economics -- The foundations of modern economics -- Neoclassical microeconomics -- Critiques of formal economics -- Summary: Reconciling self-interest and selflessness -- Notes -- Social and political economy -- Social humans -- Power and politicis -- Durkheim and the social organism -- Karl Marx: putting politics into the economy -- Varieties of social and political economy -- Summary: The problems of structure and agency -- Notes -- The moral human: cultural economics -- Morals, ideology, symbols -- The roots of moral economics -- The question of rationality and culture -- Problems with cultural economics -- Cultural economics, round two -- Summary: How much does culture determine? -- Notes -- Gifts and exchange -- Three analyses of potlatching -- But what is a gift? -- Linking Mauss and Marx -- Reciprocity and gifting -- Accumulating value in the gift -- Beyond value -- Mutual recognition and the gift -- Conclusions -- Note -- Conclusions: Complex economic human beings -- The case of the leaking houses -- The problem of explaining things -- Resolving the fundamental issues -- Rethinking human nature -- Conclusions -- Note |
| Summary |
This second edition contains an entirely new chapter on gifts and exchange as well as a thoroughly updated bibliography and guide for students for finding case studies in economic anthropology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-227) and index |
| Notes |
This edition in English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Economic anthropology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Economic anthropology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cliggett, Lisa, 1965-
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| LC no. |
2021698865 |
| ISBN |
9780429974892 |
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0429974892 |
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9780786734450 |
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0786734450 |
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0367319292 |
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9780367319298 |
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0429495269 |
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9780429495267 |
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1281607223 |
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9781281607225 |
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9786613787934 |
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6613787930 |
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