Economic Anthropology

Name: Economic Anthropology
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ISBN: 9780745644837

ISBN-10: 074564483X

ISBN-13: 9780745644837

Edition: 2011

Authors: Chris Hann, Keith Hart

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This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropologists have contributed to understanding the three great questions of modern economic history: development, socialism and one-world capitalism. In doing so, they connect economic anthropology to its roots in Western philosophy, social theory and world history.Up to the Second World War anthropologists tried and failed to interest economists in their exotic findings. They then launched a vigorous debate over whether an approach taken from economics was appropriate to the study of non-industrial economies. Since the 1970s, they have developed a…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 2/18/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.30" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Christopher Hann is a director of the Max-Planck-Institut fï¿½r Ethnologische Forschung in Halle/Saale, Germany.

Keith Hart is a co-director of the Human Economy Program at the University of Pretoria and Centennial Professor of Economic Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His recent books include The Human Economy: A Citizen's Guide (with Jean-Louis Laville and Antonio David Cattani, 2010) and Economic Anthropology: History, Ethnography, Critique (with Chris Hann, 2011).



Preface



Introduction: Economic Anthropology


Some Issues of Method


The Human Economy


Critical Anthropology


Organization of the Book



Economy from the Ancient World to the Age of the Internet


Economy as Household Management


Medieval and Early Modern Roots of Economic Theory


The Rise of Political Economy


The Economic Anthropology of Karl Marx


National Capitalism and Beyond


Conclusion



The Rise of Modern Economics and Anthropology


The German Tradition


The British Tradition


The American Tradition


The French Tradition


Conclusion



The Golden Age of Economic Anthropology


Karl Polanyi and the Substantivist School


The Formalists


Conclusion



After the Formalist-Substantivist Debate


Marxism


Feminism


The Cultural Turn


Hard Science


The Anthropology of Money


Conclusion



Unequal Development


Development in an Unequal World


Anthropologists and Development


The Anthropology of Development in Africa


The Informal Economy


Beyond Development?


Conclusion



The Socialist Alternative


Socialism


Postsocialist Transformation


Reform Socialism


Conclusion



One-world Capitalism


The Development of Capitalism


Industrial Work


Consumption


Corporate Capitalism


Money and the Financial Crisis


Conclusion



Where Do We Go From Here?


History, Ethnography, Critique


Economic Anthropology as a Discipline


Farewell to Homo economicus


Notes on Further Reading


Bibliography


Index