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Offering a new and comprehensive overview of important topics and orientations in the anthropological study of economic life, this invigorating third edition of A Handbook of Economic Anthropology addresses key changes in the decade since the previous edition in people’s economic lives and environments, as well as in intellectual interest among scholars.The Handbook contains diverse reflections on the economic turmoil of 2008 and the austerity that followed. Containing 35 newly commissioned chapters from important scholars in the field, it covers the nature of work and the changing ways people think about it, as stable jobs give way to short term work and the platform economy, as well as the expansion of the financial sector and efforts to control it. Chapters further explore social reproduction, the maintenance and regeneration of households and social relations over time, as well as the increasing concern with value, morality and ethics, both as things that motivate people and as policy orientations.This will be a critical read for academic anthropologists looking for a state-of-the-art and thorough reference work for this key area of the discipline. Economic sociologists and geographers, as well as heterodox economists will also benefit from the broad range of empirical work and theoretical standpoints explored.
Edited by James G. Carrier, Academic researcher and author in the field of anthropology
Contents:1 Introducing economic anthropology 1James G. CarrierPART I ORIENTATIONS2 Marx and political economy 10Don Robotham3 Polanyi and social economy 24Barry L. Isaac4 Mauss and the gift 35Andrew Sanchez5 Community and economy: economy’s base 45Stephen Gudeman6 Provisioning and the household 56Susana NarotzkyPART II ELEMENTS7 Natural resources: the twice-hidden abode of economic processes 72Jaume Franquesa8 Property 85David Sneath9 Production 98Rebecca Prentice10 Labour 110Charlotte Bruckermann11 Circulation and its forms 121Maxim Bolt12 Markets 136Mark Busse13 Consumption 149Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld and Aaron C. Delgaty14 Waste: the first and final frontier 162Jacob DohertyPART III INTEGRATIONS15 Gender: feminist perspectives and economic anthropology 176Victoria Goddard and Frances Pine16 Environment and economy: Great divide to great acceleration 191Eric Hirsch17 Ritual, rationality and intersections between economy and religion 204Simon Coleman18 Kinship and economy 216Lale Yalçın-Heckmann19 Migration 227İbrahim Sirkeci and Armağan Teke Lloyd20 Morality 239Irene Sabaté Muriel21 Archaeology and markets 251Douglas K. SmitPART IV ISSUES22 Economic ethicising 266Stefanie Mauksch23 The good life 277Matthew Doyle24 Emerging varieties of work 289Ivan Rajković25 Anthropology’s brief (?) obsession with neoliberalism 303Thomas Dunk26 Global inequality 316Jason Hickel27 Underlying transfers 331Anthony J. Pickles28 Mass mobilisations 341Ida Susser29 Business 353Greg Urban30 Commodity chains 368André Thiemann31 Instability 379Donald M. Nonini32 Anthropology with or without Home 392Andreas Streinzer33 Activist anthropology 406Katharina BodirskyPART V AFTER THE CRISIS34 The nature of the crisis 420Nathan Coben35 Society is debt 433Anush Kapadia36 Financialisation 447Richard H. Robbins37 Austerity 461Theodore Powers38 Financial regulation 473Daniel Seabra Lopes39 Alternative economies 487Patrick O’Hare40 After the revolutions: incremental change in contemporary economics 500Michael BlimIndex
‘A Handbook of Economic Anthropology accomplishes that rare feat of surveying the state-of-the-art in the field while also pushing the boundaries of research with new ideas and interpretations. The essays are compelling in their own right, but together they provide a comprehensive look at economic anthropology today and point the way for future work.’