Full Description
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 reevaluation of the global capitalist system as it stands today.
Contents
Proprietary Contest, Business Ethics, and Conflict Management: A Multi-Sited Commodity Ethnography.
The English Enlightenment and "The Economy": How Some Men with a Vision Created the Modern World and Its Problems.
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.
Japanese "Merchants of Culture": The Publishing Business in Japan.
"Is it Really Islamic?" Evaluating the "Islam" in Islamic Banking in Amman, Jordan.
Financialization and Financial Labor: Ethnographies of Finance and "Ethnographic Reflections" on British Retail Stockbroking.
BMW - Mastering the Crises with "New Efficiency?".
Redefining the Meaning of Land: Property Rights and Land Use in a Privatized Commons in Kenya.
Trial and Error, Study and Sweat: Yoshida Sabur?'s Smallholding in Northeastern Japan, 1935.
Self-Employed Women in the Informal Economy: Beach Vendors in Acapulco.
Women's Autonomy and Microcredit Repayment Delay.
The Labor Topography of Central Highland Guatemala Youth: Employment Diversification, Health, and Education in the Context of Poverty.
The Integration of Periodic Markets in Mayan Guatemala: A Gravity Approach.
The Flow of Goods and Service in Hierarchically Ordered Rural Societies: Patronage, Clientage, and the Livro Da Virtuosa Bemfeitoria of the Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal.
About the Authors.
Copyright page.
Dedication.
Production, Consumption, Business and the Economy: Structural Ideals and Moral Realities.
Introduction.
List of Contributors.
Research in Economic Anthropology.
Production, Consumption, Business and the Economy: Structural Ideals and Moral Realities.
Proprietary Contest, Business Ethics, and Conflict Management: A Multi-Sited Commodity Ethnography.
The English Enlightenment and "The Economy": How Some Men with a Vision Created the Modern World and Its Problems.
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.
Japanese "Merchants of Culture": The Publishing Business in Japan.
"Is it Really Islamic?" Evaluating the "Islam" in Islamic Banking in Amman, Jordan.
Financialization and Financial Labor: Ethnographies of Finance and "Ethnographic Reflections" on British Retail Stockbroking.
BMW - Mastering the Crises with "New Efficiency?".
Redefining the Meaning of Land: Property Rights and Land Use in a Privatized Commons in Kenya.
Trial and Error, Study and Sweat: Yoshida Sabur?'s Smallholding in Northeastern Japan, 1935.
Self-Employed Women in the Informal Economy: Beach Vendors in Acapulco.
Women's Autonomy and Microcredit Repayment Delay.
The Labor Topography of Central Highland Guatemala Youth: Employment Diversification, Health, and Education in the Context of Poverty.
The Integration of Periodic Markets in Mayan Guatemala: A Gravity Approach.
The Flow of Goods and Service in Hierarchically Ordered Rural Societies: Patronage, Clientage, and the Livro Da Virtuosa Bemfeitoria of the Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal.
About the Authors.
Copyright page.
Dedication.
Production, Consumption, Business and the Economy: Structural Ideals and Moral Realities.
Introduction.
List of Contributors.
Research in Economic Anthropology.
Production, Consumption, Business and the Economy: Structural Ideals and Moral Realities.
