Theory in economic anthropology / edited by Jean Ensminger.

Format:

Book

Series:

Society for Economic Anthropology monographs ; no. 18.

Society for Economic Anthropology monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic anthropology.

Physical Description:

xix, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, [2002]

Summary:

Scoring Performance Assessments Based on Judgements focuses on the applications of Generalizability Theory to Performance Assessment. The author developed an objective method to examine the dependability of the scoring of large-scale performance assessments by humans. This book presents principles in identifying common missing data patterns inherent in assessment designs. These principles can be used to guide the design of assessment procedures including those used in large-scale testing programs, observations, and structured interviews.

Contents:

Introduction: Theory in Economic Anthropology at the Turn of the Century / Jean Ensminger ix

Part I The New Institutionalism 1

Chapter 1 Property Rights and Incentives for Agricultural Growth: Women Farmers' Crop Control and Their Use of Agricultural Inputs / Edwins Laban M. Gwako 3

Chapter 2 Transaction Cost Economics: Accomplishments, Problems, and Possibilities / James M. Acheson 27

Chapter 3 Experimental Economics: A Powerful New Method for Theory Testing in Anthropology / Jean Ensminger 59

Part II Rethinking Wealth, Exchange, and the Evolution of Social Institutions 79

Chapter 4 Commodity Flows and the Evolution of Complex Societies / Timothy Earle 81

Chapter 5 Economic Transfers and Exchanges: Concepts for Describing Allocations / Robert C. Hunt 105

Chapter 6 Polanyi and the Definition of Capitalism / Duran Bell 119

Part III Small Producers Interacting with the Wider World 135

Chapter 7 Chayanov and Theory in Economic Anthropology / E. Paul Durrenberger, Nicola Tannenbaum 137

Chapter 8 Space, Place, and Economic Anthropology: Locating Potters in a Sri Lankan Landscape / Deborah Winslow 155

Chapter 9 Indians, Markets, and Transnational Studies in Mesoamerican Anthropology: Predicaments and Opportunities / Jeffrey H. Cohen 183

Part IV Commodity Chains and the Formal/Informal Sector Distinction 197

Chapter 10 Transcending the Formal/Informal Distinction: Commercial Relations in Africa and Russia in the Post-1989 World / Elena Obukhova, Jane I. Guyer 199

Chapter 11 Commodity Chains and the International Secondhand Clothing Trade: Salaula and the Work of Consumption in Zambia / Karen Tranberg Hansen 221

Part V The Role for "Big Theory" in Economic Anthropology 237

Chapter 12 When Good Theories Go Bad: Theory in Economic Anthropology and Consumer Research / Richard Wilk 239

Chapter 13 Decision Making, Cultural Transmission, and Adaptation in Economic Anthropology / Joseph Henrich 251.

Notes:

"Published in cooperation with the Society for Economic Anthropology."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0759102058

0759102066

OCLC:

47443973