Property in Economic Context

Co-published with the Society for Economic Anthropology, Property in Economic Context presents fifteen original essays examining the definition and organization of property in the context of economic organization.

List of contents

chapter 1 Concepts of Property chapter 2 Properties of Property chapter 3 The Social Relations of Property and Efficiency chapter 4 Property chapter 5 Property in Precapitalist Societies, Obscured by the Forest chapter 6 Property Rights and the Evolution of Hawaiian Chiefdoms chapter 7 Concepts of Property and Access to Nonagricultural Resources in the Inka Empire chapter 8 Private Landownership chapter 9 Debt and Fiscal Crisis in the ancient Near East chapter 10 Property, State, and Self-Destruction in Medieval Iceland chapter 11 The Changing Commons chapter 12 Reconstructing Property Systems from Archaeological Evidence chapter 13 Modern Colonial Encounters chapter 14 The Politics of Property Among Northern Algonquians chapter 15 Simbu Property chapter 16 Land, Property, and Credit Contracts in Priangan, West Java, 1870's Through the 1920's chapter 17 The Emergence of Private Proportion in Land and the Dynamics of Agricultural Production chapter 18 The Erosion of Commons and the emergence of Property chapter 19 About the Contributors.

About the author

By Robert C. Hunt and Antonio Gilman - Contributions by Duran Bell; Charles A. Bishop; Paula Brown; Jean-Philippe Colin; Cathy Costin; E. Paul Durrenberger; Timothy K. Earle; Andrew Fleming; Michael C. Hudson; Patricia A. McAnany; Walter C. Neale; Pauline

Product details

• Authors: Antonio Gilman, Gilman Antonio, Robert Hunt, Robert C Hunt, Hunt Robert C.
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.1998
• EAN: 9780761810643
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-1064-3
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 227 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 531 g
• Series: Monographs in Economic Anthropology Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Property & real estate, Social and cultural anthropology, Property and real estate