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Cultural Economies Past and Present

English · Paperback / Softback

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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

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