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. Focusing on precapitalist societies as accessed through history and archaeology, as well as modern colonial encounters accessed through ethnography, the essays argue for and illustrate the importance of including specific property features when doing an analysis of economic organization. This is the first time that general property issues have been empirically investigated in this manner.

Preface
Concepts of Property
Concepts of Property: Introduction	p. 3
Properties of Property: Conceptual Issues	p. 7
The Social Relations of Property and Efficiency	p. 29
Property: Law, Cotton-pickin' Hands, and Implicit Cultural Imperialism	p. 47
Property in Precapitalist Societies
Property in Precapitalist Societies: Introduction	p. 67
Obscured by the Forest: Property and Ancestors in Lowland Maya Society	p. 73
Property Rights and the Evolution of Hawaiian Chiefdoms	p. 89
Concepts of Property and Access to Nonagricultural Resources in the Inka Empire	p. 119
Private Landownership, Debt, and Fiscal Crisis in the Ancient Near East	p. 139
Property, State, and Self-Destruction in Medieval Iceland	p. 171
The Changing Commons: The Case of Swaledale (England)	p. 187
Reconstructing Property Systems from Archaeological Evidence	p. 215
Modern Colonial Encounters
Modern Colonial Encounters: Introduction	p. 237
The Politics of Property among Northern Algonquians	p. 247
Simbu Property	p. 269
Land, Property, and Credit Contracts in Priangan, West Java, 1870s Through the 1920s: Legal Framework and Private Ordering	p. 289
The Emergence of Private Property in Land and the Dynamics of Agricultural Production: A Case Study from the Ivory Coast	p. 317
The Erosion of Commons and the Emergence of Property: Problems for Social Analysis	p. 351
About the Contributors	p. 379
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