A handbook of economic anthropology / edited by James G. Carrier (Academic researcher and author in the field of anthropology).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carrier, James G., editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic anthropology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (560 pages)

Edition:

3rd edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.

Summary:

"Offering a new and comprehensive overview of important topics and orientations in the anthropological study of economic life, this invigorating third edition of A Handbook of Economic Anthropology addresses key changes in the decade since the previous edition in people's economic lives and environments, as well as in intellectual interest among scholars. The Handbook contains diverse reflections on the economic turmoil of 2008 and the austerity that followed. Containing 35 newly commissioned chapters from important scholars in the field, it covers the nature of work and the changing ways people think about it, as stable jobs give way to short term work and the platform economy, as well as the expansion of the financial sector and efforts to control it. Chapters further explore social reproduction, the maintenance and regeneration of households and social relations over time, as well as the increasing concern with value, morality and ethics, both as things that motivate people and as policy orientations. This will be a critical read for academic anthropologists looking for a state-of-the-art and thorough reference work for this key area of the discipline. Economic sociologists and geographers, as well as heterodox economists will also benefit from the broad range of empirical work and theoretical standpoints explored"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Introducing economic anthropology / James G. Carrier

Part I: Orientations

2. Marx and political economy / Don Robotham

3. Polanyi and social economy / Barry L. Isaac

4. Mauss and the gift / Andrew Sanchez

5. Community and economy: Economy's base / Stephen Gudeman

6. Provisioning and the household / Susana Narotzky

Part II: Elements

7. Natural resources: The twice-hidden abode of economic processes / Jaume Franquesa

8. Property / David Sneath

9. Production / Rebecca Prentice

10. Labour / Charlotte Bruckermann

11. Circulation and its forms / Maxim Bolt

12. Markets / Mark Busse

13. Consumption / Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld and Aaron C. Delgaty

14. Waste: The first and final frontier / Jacob Doherty

Part III: Integrations

15. Gender: Feminist perspectives and economic anthropology / Victoria Goddard and Frances Pine

16. Environment and economy: Great divide to great acceleration / Eric Hirsch

17. Ritual, rationality and intersections between economy and religion / Simon Coleman

18. Kinship and economy / Lale Yalçın-Heckmann

19. Migration / İbrahim Sirkeci and Armağan Teke Lloyd

20. Morality / Irene Sabaté Muriel

21. Archaeology and markets / Douglas K. Smit

Part IV: Issues

22. Economic ethicising / Stefanie Mauksch

23. The good life / Matthew Doyle

24. Emerging varieties of work / Ivan Rajković

25. Anthropology's brief (?) obsession with neoliberalism / Thomas Dunk

26. Global inequality / Jason Hickel

27. Underlying transfers / Anthony J. Pickles

28. Mass mobilisations / Ida Susser

29. Business / Greg Urban

30. Commodity chains / André Thiemann

31. Instability / Donald M. Nonini

32. Anthropology with or without home / Andreas Streinzer

33. Activist anthropology / Katharina Bodirsky

Part V: After the crisis

34. The nature of the crisis / Nathan Coben

35. Society is debt / Anush Kapadia

36. Financialisation / Richard H. Robbins

37. Austerity / Theodore Powers

38. Financial regulation / Daniel Seabra Lopes

39. Alternative economies / Patrick O'Hare

40. After the revolutions: Incremental change in contemporary economics / Michael Blim

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781839108921 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.