Production, consumption, business and the economy : structural ideals and moral realities / edited by Donald C. Wood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wood, Donald C.

Series:

Research in economic anthropology ; v. 34.

Research in economic anthropology, 0190-1281 ; v. 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic anthropology.

Economics--Moral and ethical aspects.

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (434 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bingley, England : Emerald, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This thirty-fourth volume in the REA series contains fourteen chapters by a variety of researchers touching on a wide range of topics in economic anthropology and covering a vast geographical area. The chapters are divided into four sections: one focusing on commodities and their social meanings and values, one organized around the anthropological investigation of business systems and practices, one concentrating on the economic importance of productive land in culture and society, and finally one that showcases a variety of new research on the economic anthropology of Latin America. Geographic areas featured in the volume include Africa (Kenya and Mauritius), Europe (Britain, Germany, and Romania), North America (Mexico and Guatemala), South America (Brazil), East Asia (Japan), and Western Asia (Jordan). Standing apart from these four sections is a special feature essay by noted anthropologist Sidney Greenfield that calls for a re-evaluation of the global capitalist system as it stands today.

Contents:

The English enlightenment and "the economy" : how some men with a vision created the modern world and its problems / Sidney M. Greenfield

Proprietary contest, business ethics and conflict management : a multi-sited commodity ethnography / Péter Berta

Three shades of embeddedness : state capitalism as the informal economy, emic notions of the anti-market and counterfeit garments in the Mauritian export processing zone / Patrick Neveling

Japanese "merchants of culture" : the publishing business in Japan / Brian Moeran

"Is it really islamic?" Evaluating the "Islam" in Islamic banking in Amman, Jordan / Sarah A. Tobin

Financialization and financial labour : ethnographies of finance and "ethnographic reflections" on British retail stockbroking / Alexander Parkinson

BMW : mastering the crises with "new efficiency?" / Ludger Pries, Martin Seeliger

Redefining the meaning of land : property rights and land use in a privatized commons in Kenya / Carolyn K. Lesorogol

Trial and error, study and sweat : Yoshida Saburos smallholding in northeastern Japan, 1935 / Donald C. Wood

Self-employed women in the informal economy : beach vendors in Acapulco / Tamar Diana Wilson

Women's autonomy and microcredit repayment delay / Kristiano Raccanello

The labor topography of central highland Guatemala youth : employment diversification, health, and education in the context of poverty / Liliana Goldín

The integration of periodic markets in Mayan Guatemala : a gravity approach / E. Anthon Eff, Christa D. Jensen

The flow of goods and service in hierarchically ordered rural societies : patronage, clientage and the Livro Da Vertuoso Bemfeitoria of the Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal / Sidney M. Greenfield.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781784410551

1784410551