Economic development, integration, and morality in Asia and the Americas / edited by Donald C. Wood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wood, Donald C.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Research in economic anthropology ; v. 29.

Research in economic anthropology, 0190-1281 ; v. 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Moral and ethical aspects.

Economic development.

Economic development--Latin America.

Latin America.

Economic development--Asia.

Asia--Economic integration.

Asia.

Latin America--Economic integration.

Physical Description:

x, 429 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, UK : Emerald, JAI, 2009.

Summary:

This 29th volume in the Research in Economic Anthropology series explores economic development, integration, and morality in economic transactions in Asia and the Americas through 14 original chapters based on ethnographic evidence collected by the authors. Under development, chapters look at underground gambling behavior in China in light of that country's current economic boom, recent retail store expansion and local socioeconomic effects in rural Mexico, a century of change in the ceramic industry of a major pottery town in Uzbekistan, marketplace vending as part of the household economy in Bolivia, and also women's economic activities as part of the household economy in Oaxaca, Mexico. As for economic integration, authors investigate monetization in the historical and archaeological records of the Angkorian Empire, transnational economic links between coffee producers in Costa Rica and Panama and concurrent socio-economic effects at the production sites, global flows of people and money in the international sex trade, implications of the "Made in China" label amidst China's economic rise, globalization, and international politics - especially in continental Asia, and the effect of in-migration and familial networks on total population in sites of heavy out-migration to the United States in Jalisco, Mexico. Finally, under the moral, chapters examine the culture of restaurant tipping in North America, the pre-school education market in northern Japan against a backdrop of scarcity of children, narrative and social pressure in a North American market environment, and the role of social capital in gender-specific credit association membership in Puebla, Mexico.

Contents:

Introduction: Economic development, integration, and morality in Asia and the Americas / Donald C. Wood

Underground lotteries in China : the occult economy and capitalist culture / Joseph Bosco, Lucia Huwy-Min Liu and Matthew West

Supermarketization, consumer choices, and the changing food retail market structure : the case of Citlalicalli, Mexico / Jayant Anand

A master is greater than a father : rearrangements of traditions among Muslim artisans in Soviet and Post-Soviet Uzbekistan / Haruka Kikuta

Marketplace vendors, decision-making, and the household in Bolivia / Kathleen E. Gordon

Gender, work, and opportunity in Oaxaca : some thoughts on the importance of women in the economic life of the rural village / Jeffrey H. Cohen ... [et al.]

Money doesn't make the world go round : Angkor's non-monetisation / Eileen Lustig

Shifting coffee markets and producer responses in Costa Rica and Panama / Julia Smith

Moving bodies : the intersections of sex, work, and tourism / J.S. Eades

"Made in China"

political and cultural valuation of brand images, trade, and commodities : ethnographic evidence from Europe and Asia / Lionel Obadia

The expansion of immigrant networks at origin : a case study of a rancho in Jalisco, Mexico / Tamar Diana Wilson

Restaurant tipping : short circuiting the morality of the market / Daniel Suarez

Children as a common-pool resource : change and the shrinking kindergarten market in a Japanese city / Donald C. Wood

"I bought this at Eastern market" : vending, value, and social relations in an urban street market / Robert J. Shepherd

Social capital as an incentive for participation and formation of women-dominant ROSCAs / Kristiano Raccanello, Jayant Anand and Patricia Arroyo Martínez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781848555426

1848555423

OCLC:

308185229