Property in Economic Context

Robert C. Hunt has written several books and is Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Antonio Gilman is Professor of Anthropology at California State University at Northridge.

• chapter 1 Concepts of Property chapter 2 Properties of Property chapter 3 The Social Relations of Property and Efficiency chapter 4 Property chapter 5 Property in Precapitalist Societies, Obscured by the Forest chapter 6 Property Rights and the Evolution of Hawaiian Chiefdoms chapter 7 Concepts of Property and Access to Nonagricultural Resources in the Inka Empire chapter 8 Private Landownership chapter 9 Debt and Fiscal Crisis in the ancient Near East chapter 10 Property, State, and Self-Destruction in Medieval Iceland chapter 11 The Changing Commons chapter 12 Reconstructing Property Systems from Archaeological Evidence chapter 13 Modern Colonial Encounters chapter 14 The Politics of Property Among Northern Algonquians chapter 15 Simbu Property chapter 16 Land, Property, and Credit Contracts in Priangan, West Java, 1870's Through the 1920's chapter 17 The Emergence of Private Proportion in Land and the Dynamics of Agricultural Production chapter 18 The Erosion of Commons and the emergence of Property chapter 19 About the Contributors.

. . . Collectively this series of excellent papers manages to move beyond the ethnocentrism of Western philosophy and economics, emphasizing the enormous variety in property concepts and practices observed in recent years by ethnographers and historans.