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Economies and Cultures Foundations of Economic Anthropology

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ISBN-10: 0813343658

ISBN-13: 9780813343655

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Richard R. Wilk, Lisa C. Cliggett

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Tracing the history of the dialogue between anthropology and economics, the authors move economic anthropology beyond the narrow concerns of earlier debates and place the field directly at the center of current issues in the social sciences. The second edition includes an entirely new chapter on gifts and exchange that critically approaches the new literature in this area, as well as a thoroughly updated bibliography and guide for students.
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Book details

List price: $45.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/2/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

List of Illustrations and Figures
Preface to the Second Edition
Economic Anthropology: An Undisciplined Discipline
Controversy and Social Science
The Formalist-Substantivist Debate
Economic Anthropology After the Great Debate
Can There Be a Conclusion?
Notes
Economics and the Problem of Human Nature
Defining the Economy
Redefining Economic Anthropology
Notes
Self-Interest and Neoclassical Microeconomics
Adam Smith and the Birth of Western Economics
The Foundations of Modern Economics
Neoclassical Microeconomics
Critiques of Formal Economics
Summary: Reconciling Self-Interest and Selflessness
Notes
Social and Political Economy
Social Humans
Power and Politics
Durkheim and the Social Organism
Karl Marx: Putting Politics into the Economy
Varieties of Social and Political Economy
Summary: The Problems of Structure and Agency
Notes
The Moral Human: Cultural Economics
Morals, Ideology, Symbols
The Roots of Moral Economics
The Question of Rationality and Culture
Problems with Cultural Economics
Cultural Economics, Round Two
Summary: How Much Does Culture Determine?
Notes
Gifts and Exchange
Three Analyses of Potlatching
But What Is a Gift?
Linking Mauss and Marx
Reciprocity and Gifting
Accumulating Value in the Gift
Beyond Value
Mutual Recognition and the Gift
Conclusions
Note
]Conclusions: Complex Economic Human Beings
The Case of the Leaking Houses
The Problem of Explaining Things
Resolving the Fundamental Issues
Rethinking Human Nature
Conclusions
Notes
Where to Look for More-Finding Literature in Economic Anthropology
Bibliography
Index