Cultural Economies Past and Present

An analytical tool kit for studying economic processes in all societies and at all times.

List of contents

• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• One. Methodological Individualism: Structure and Agency in Economic Anthropology
• Two. Marx’s Institutional Paradigm and Polanyi’s Generic Model of the Economy
• Three. Economy and Ecology: Basic Concepts, Their History, and Applications
• Four. Equivalencies in Economic Anthropology
• Five. Householding: Resistance and Livelihood in Rural Economies
• Six. Storage as an Economic Process
• Seven. A Cross-Cultural Treatment of the Informal Economy
• Eight. Time and the Economy: A Substantive Perspective
• Nine. Looking Backward and Forward on Concepts of the Economy: The Discourse of Economic Anthropology in Historical and Comparative Perspective
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

About the author

Rhoda H. Halperin (1946–2009) was Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Montclair State from 2004–2009. She was also Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, at the University of Cincinnati.

Summary

An analytical tool kit for studying economic processes in all societies and at all times.

Product details

• Authors: Rhoda H. Halperin, Rhoda H. Halpern
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1994
• EAN: 9780292730908
• ISBN: 978-0-292-73090-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 513 g
• Series: Texas Press Sourcebooks in Ant; University of Texas Press; Texas Press Sourcebooks in Anthropology; Texas Press Sourcebooks in Ant
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology