Theory in Economic Anthropology

, by Ensminger, Jean; Gwako, Edwins Laban; Acheson, James M.; Earle, Timothy; Hunt, Robert C.; Bell, Duran; Durrenberger, E. Paul; Cohen, Jeffrey H.; Obukhova, Elena; Hansen, Karen Tranberg; Wilk, Richard; Henrich, Joseph; Winslow, Deborah

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ISBN: 9780759102064 | 0759102066
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Copyright: 12/18/2001

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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.

Acknowledgments

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Introduction Theory in Economic Anthropology at the Turn of the Century

Jean Ensminger

Part I The New Institutionalism

(78)

Property Rights and Incentives for Agricultural Growth: Women Farmers' Crop Control and Their Use of Agricultural Inputs

(24)

Edwins Laban M. Gwako

Transaction Cost Economics: Accomplishments, Problems, and Possibilities

(32)

James M. Acheson

Experimental Economics: A Powerful New Method for Theory Testing in Anthropology

(20)

Jean Ensminger

Part II Rethinking Wealth, Exchange, and the Evolution of Social Institutions

(56)

Commodity Flows and the Evolution of Complex Societies

(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 Tannenbaum

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/Information 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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