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Economies Beyond Agriculture in the Classical Worldby David J. Mattingly; John Salmon
Routledge 2000; US$ 44.95This landmark study moves the debate on from Moses Finley's seminal work on the ancient economy and discusses new evidence and approaches to the subject. It will be an indispensable resource for those interested in the classical economy. more...
World of Goodsby Mary Douglas; Baron Isherwood
Routledge 1996; US$ 52.95In this pioneering work, a leading anthropologist and an economist join forces to suggest that people use goods as a means of communicating with each other and illustrate how we can better understand the way this affects society. more...
Mollie's Jobby William M. Adler
Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 13.99Following the flight of one woman's factory job from the United States to Mexico, this compelling work offers a provocative and fresh perspective on the global economy -- at a time when downsizing is unraveling the American Dream for many working families. Mollie's Job is an absorbing and affecting narrative history that traces the postwar migration of one factory job as it passes from the cradle of American industry, Paterson, New Jersey, to rural Mississippi during the turmoil of the civil rights movement to the burgeoning border city of Matamoros, Mexico. This fascinating account follows the intersecting lives and fates of three women -- Mollie James in Paterson, Dorothy Carter in Mississippi, and Balbina Duque in Matamoros, all of... more...
Anthropology of Organizationsby Susan Wright
Routledge 1994; US$ 50.95This book presents and analyses the latest anthropological work on the development and management of organizations, examining practical problems which anthropology can help to solve. more...
Arguing With Anthropologyby Karen Sykes
Routledge 2005; US$ 41.95Arguing with Anthropology is a fresh and wholly original guide to key elements in anthropology, which teaches the ability to think, write and argue critically. Using the famous 'question of the gift' as a master-issue for discussion, and drawing on a rich variety of methods, aims, knowledge and understanding. The books' unique hypothetical approach takes gift-theory - the science of obligation and reciprocity - as the theme of a virtual enquiry which explores how the discipline has evolved historically, how it is applied in practice and how it can be argued with critically. By asking readers to participate in projected situations and dilemmas, and in arguments about the form and nature of enquiry, this distinctive book offers working practice... more...
A Handbook of Economic Anthropologyby J.G. Carrier
Edward Elgar Publishing 2005; US$ 60.00For more than a century, anthropologists have studied the economic lives and institutions of people around the world. The results of their research and reflection on economy have generally stayed within the discipline and have not been available in an accessible form to a broader readership. more...
Immigration and the Political Economy of Homeby Rachel Buff
University of California Press 2001; US$ 15.95Rachel Buff's innovative study of festivals in two American communities launches a substantive inquiry into the nature of citizenship, race, and social power. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, Buff compares American Indian powwows in Minneapolis with the West Indian American Day Carnival in New York. more...
Anthropology and Politics of Commodity Exchangeby Chris Gregory
Gordon and Breach 1997; US$ 46.38A theoretically and ethnographically informed collection of essays which opens up questions through an examination of concrete cases, covering global and local questions of political economy. more...
Bread And Circusesby Kathryn Lomas; Tim Cornell
Taylor & Francis 2002; US$ 138.00Cities in the ancient world relied on private generosity to provide many basic amenities. This collection of essays by leading scholars explores the important phenomenon of benefaction and public patronage in Roman Italy. more...
Choice in Economic Contexts, Volume 25by Donald Wood
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 99.95This 25th volume in the "Research in Economic Anthropology" series contains 12 original papers, nine empirical ethnographic studies and three theoretical essays - all linked by a common concern with economic choice in various social and cultural situations, and authored by researchers in anthropology, economics, and sociology. The ethnographic studies present data collected in Mexico, Paraguay, Columbia, Greece, Morocco, Egypt, Thailand, Taiwan, and Japan. Part I of the volume focuses on work migration, a theme that has received much attention of late. Papers in Part II are concerned with various manifestations of markets and market forces in everyday life, and associated individual, group, or corporate action. Part III consists of studies... more...









