Economic Anthropology

James G. Carrier

doi:10.1017/9781788212526

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James G. Carrier, Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Halle and Indiana University

Publisher:: Agenda Publishing
Online publication date:: December 2023
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9781788212526
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781788212526

Subjects:: Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology
Series:: The Economy Key Ideas

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Conventional economic thought sees the economy as the sum of market transactions carried out by rational individuals deciding how to allocate their resources among the various things on offer that would satisfy their desires. Economic anthropologists see things differently. For them, the focus is the activities, relationships and systems through which objects are produced, circulate among people and ultimately are consumed, which take different forms in different societies and even in different parts of the same society. In this way, economic anthropology takes the rational market actors of conventional economic thought and places them in the world of people, relationships, systems, beliefs and values that begins with production and ends with consumption. This accessible and authoritative introduction to the field of economic anthropology offers students a fresh and fascinating way of looking at the economic world.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Preface
pp vii-xii

Introducing economic anthropology
pp 1-12

1 - Production and what is produced
pp 13-26

2 - Changing production
pp 27-44

3 - Circulation, identity, relationship and order
pp 45-60

4 - Gifts and commodities
pp 61-74

5 - Commercial circulation
pp 75-88

6 - Considering Christmas
pp 89-102

7 - Consumption and meaning
pp 103-116

8 - Consumption in context
pp 117-130

Afterword
pp 131-132

Further reading
pp 133-138

References
pp 139-146

Index
pp 147-152

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