Theory in Economic Anthropology,9780759102057

Theory in Economic Anthropology

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ISBN13: 9780759102057
ISBN10: 0759102058
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-12-20
Publisher(s): AltaMira Press
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Summary

This new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology examines the unique contributions of anthropologists to general economic theory. The authors challenge our understanding of human economies in the expanding global systems of interaction, with models and analyses from cross-cultural research. The book will be a valuable resource for anthropologists, economists, economic historians, political economists, and economic development specialists.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction Theory in Economic Anthropology at the Turn of the Century ix
Jean Ensminger
Part I The New Institutionalism 1(78)
Property Rights and Incentives for Agricultural Growth: Women Farmers' Crop Control and Their Use of Agricultural Inputs
3(24)
Edwins Laban M. Gwako
Transaction Cost Economics: Accomplishments, Problems, and Possibilities
27(32)
James M. Acheson
Experimental Economics: A Powerful New Method for Theory Testing in Anthropology
59(20)
Jean Ensminger
Part II Rethinking Wealth, Exchange, and the Evolution of Social Institutions 79(56)
Commodity Flows and the Evolution of Complex Societies
81(24)
Timothy Earle
Economic Transfers and Exchanges: Concepts for Describing Allocations
105(14)
Robert C. Hunt
Polanyi and the Definition of Capitalism
119(16)
Duran Bell
Part III Small Producers Interacting with the Wider World 135(62)
Chayanov and Theory in Economic Anthropology
137(18)
E. Paul Durrenberger
Nicola Tanneenbaum
Space, Place, and Economic Anthropology: Locating Potters in a Sri Lankan Landscape
155(28)
Deborah Winslow
Indians, Markets, and Transnational Studies in Mesoamerican Anthropology: Predicaments and Opportunities
183(14)
Jeffrey H. Cohen
Part IV Commodity Chains and the Formal/Informal Sector Distinction 197(40)
Transcending the Formal/Informal Distinction: Commercial Relations in Africa and Russia in the Post-1989 World
199(22)
Elena Obukhova
Jane I. Guyer
Commodity Chains and the International Secondhand Clothing Trade: Salaula and the Work of Consumption in Zambia
221(16)
Karen Tranberg Hansen
Part V The Role for ``Big Theory'' in Economic Anthropology 237(59)
When Good Theories Go Bad: Theory in Economic Anthropology and Consumer Research
239(12)
Richard Wilk
Decision Making, Cultural Transmission, and Adaptation in Economic Anthropology
251(45)
Joseph Henrich
Index 296(17)
About the Contributors 313

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