Barter, Exchange and Value - An Anthropological Approach

Zusammenfassung This novel treatment of barter represents an original and topical addition to the literature on economic anthropology. It aims to show that barter is not just and inefficient means of exchange! or mere haggling! but is a mode of exchange with its own social characteristics! occupying a specific moral space. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Barter, exchange and value Caroline Humphrey and Stephen Hugh-Jones; 2. Politicised values: the cultural dynamics of peripheral exchange Nicholas Thomas; 3. Yesterday's luxuries, tomorrow's necessities: business and barter in northwest Amazonia Stephen Hugh-Jones; 4. Some notes on the economics of barter, money and credit Luca Anderlini and Hamid Sabourian; 5. Fair dealing, just rewards: the ethics of barter in North-East Nepal; 6. Inter-tribal commodity barter and productivie gift-exchange in old Melanesia Alfred Gell; 7. Qualified value: the perspective of gift exchange Marilyn Strathern.

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Humphrey, Caroline Hugh-Jones Humphrey
• Assisted by: Stephen Hugh-Jones (Editor), Caroline Humphrey (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.06.1992
• EAN: 9780521406826
• ISBN: 978-0-521-40682-6
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology