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1 online resource (242 pages) illustrations |
| Series |
Anthropological studies, no. 7 |
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Anthropological studies ; no. 7.
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| Contents |
Part I. Conceptual issues. Carl Menger's two meanings of "economic" / Karl Polanyi -- Monetization, commercialization, market orientation, and market dependence / Walter C. Neal -- Part II. Traditional economies. The intensity of domestic production in primitive societies: social inflections of the Chayanov slope / Marshall Sahlins -- "Salt currency" and the circulation of commodities among the Baruya of New Guinea / Maurice Godelier -- Commerce in the Dark Ages: a critique of the evidence / Philip Grierson -- Beggar moneylenders of central India / Shirley Birch -- Part III. Acculturation, markets, and economic development. Reciprocity of favors in the urban middle class of Chile / Larissa Lomnitz -- Traditional economic institutions and the acculturation of Canadian Eskimos / Nelson H.H. Graburn -- Estimating market conditions and profit expectations of fish sellers at Cape Coast, Ghana / Hugh Gladwin and Christina Gladwin |
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Security and risk-taking among poor peasants: a Brazilian case / Allen W. Johnson -- Risk, uncertainty, and the subsistence farmer: technological innovation and resistance to change in the context of survival / Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. -- Developing village India: a statistical analysis / Irma Adelman and George Dalton |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Economic history -- 1945-1971.
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Economic anthropology.
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Economic anthropology
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Economic history
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Economische antropologie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dalton, George, editor.
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