Self in the World

Keith Hart’s research has been on economic anthropology, Africa, money and the internet. He contributed the concept of informal economy to development studies. His books include The Memory Bank: Money in an Unequal World (Profile, 2000) and the edited volume Money in a Human Economy (Berghahn, 2017). He has taught on four continents and co-founded the Human Economy Programme in Pretoria.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsChronologyIntroductionPart I: AncestorsChapter 1. Writing the Self: A GenealogyChapter 2. Anthropology's Forgotten FoundersChapter 3. The Anti-Colonial Intellectuals: Thinking New WorldsPart II: SelfChapter 4. I Come From ManchesterChapter 5. The Escalator: Grammar School and CambridgeChapter 6. An African ApprenticeshipChapter 7. The Development IndustryChapter 8. Learning to Fly in AmericaChapter 9. Back to Cambridge; Caribbean InterludeChapter 10. When the World TurnedChapter 11. Restart in Paris and DurbanChapter 12. Health ProblemsPart III: WorldChapter 13. Movement and the Globalization of ApartheidChapter 14. An Anthropologist in the Digital RevolutionChapter 15. Economies Connecting Local and Global HumanityChapter 16. Africa 1800-2100: Waiting for EmancipationPart IV: Lifelong LearningChapter 17. After the British Empire: Politics and EducationChapter 18. Explorations in Transnational HistoryChapter 19. Money is How We Learn to Be More Fully HumanChapter 20. Learning, Remembering and SharingAfterword: What Question is This the Answer To?Appendix: Hart Papers Online (By Year)ReferencesIndex

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