Gifts and Commodities

Gregory, C.A.

Academic Press, Inc.

The first book to concentrate exclusively on systematic ethnographic methods for collecting and analysing primary economic data. It is practical in its approach, dealing with complex theoretical issues in a concrete empirical way. This book should be of interest to students in social anthropology, economics, human geography and sociology as well as professional workers and administrators in development agencies.

Observing the Economy (Asa Research Methods in Social Anthropology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Altman, J. C.

Social Sciences

Routledge

The first book to concentrate exclusively on systematic ethnographic methods for collecting and analysing primary economic data. This book should be of interest to post-graduate students in social anthropology, economists, human geography and sociology , as well as professional workers and administrators in development agencies.

Observing the Economy (ASA Research Methods Series)

Business & Money

Economics

Christopher A. Gregory’s Gifts and Commodities is one of the undisputed classics of economic anthropology. On its publication in 1982, it spurred intense, ongoing debates about gifts and gifting, value, exchange, and the place of political economy in anthropology. Gifts and Commodities is, at once, a critique of neoclassical economics and development theory, a critical history of colonial Papua New Guinea, and a comparative ethnography of exchange in Melanesian societies. This new edition includes a foreword by anthropologist Marilyn Strathern and a new preface by the author that discusses the ongoing response to the book and the debates it has engendered, debates that have become more salient in our evermore neoliberal and globalized era.

Savage Money

Savage Money (Studies in Anthropology and History)

This volume is not simply another general theory of world system. It is a theoretically and ethnographically informed collection of essays which opens up new questions through an examination of concrete cases, covering global and local questions of political economy.

Savage Money (Studies in Anthropology and History ; Vol. 21)

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