文档介绍：A HANDBOOK OF ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY
A Handbook of Economic
Anthropology
Edited by
James G. Carrier
Senior Research Associate in Anthropology, Oxford Brookes
University, UK and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology,
Indiana University, USA
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
© James G. Carrier 2005
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Contents
List of contributors viii
Preface and acknowledgements xv
Introduction 1
James G. Carrier
PART I ORIENTATIONS
Introduction 13
1Karl Polanyi 14
Barry L. Isaac
2 Anthropology, political economy and world-system theory 26
. Eades
3 Political economy 41
Don Robotham
4 Decisions and choices: the rationality of economic actors 59
Sutti Ortiz
5 Provisioning 78
Susana Narotzky
munity and economy: economy’s base 94
Stephen Gudeman
PART II ELEMENTS
Introduction 109
7 Property 110
Chris Hann
8Labour 125
E. Paul Durrenberger
9 Industrial work 141
Jonathan Parry
10 Money: one anthropologist’s view 160
Keith Hart
11 Finance 176
Bill Maurer
12 Distribution and redistribution 194
Thomas C. Patterson
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vi A handbook of economic anthropology
13 Consumption 210
Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld
PART III CIRCULATION
Introduction 229
14 Ceremonial exchange 230
Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart
15 The gift and gift economy 246
Yunxiang Yan
16 Barter 262