New Directions in Economic Anthropology

Susana Narotzky is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona, Spain, and past President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.

• Introduction1. Production The ecosystemTechnological processes Access to resourcesThe question of 'work' in western societies2. Distribution and exchangeForms of Reciprocity and RedistributionExchangeCirculationMarket culture or market system?3. Consumption Defining consumptionThe consumption unitWhat happens within the consumption unit?Beyond the domestic group boundariesProducing while consuming4. Social reproduction Production and reproduction5. ConclusionLocal culture and economic modelsThe case study. Local processes in the construction of labour/ capital relationsModels of analysis for a 'New Economic Organisation'Work experiences and labour/ capital relationsRethinking proletarianisation and classBibliographyIndex

'Narotzky is particularly compelling in her discussion of the relation between the counted and unaccounted as it enters practices and ideology in the informal economy, family business and home life'