Sentimental Economy

Carles Salazar is lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Lleida. He gained his PhD degree at the University of Cambridge, and has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Ireland and Catalonia. His main research has been focused on different aspects of Irish society and culture: rural economy, religious beliefs, family organization and history of sexual morality. He has also done research on the history of anthropology and on the cultural understanding of biomedicine and genetics among infertile couples in Barcelona. His latest publications include  Anthropology and Sexual Morality (Berghahn Books, 2006).

• PrefaceAlan MacfarlaneAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Memories from the WestChapter 2. Languages and PracticesChapter 3. An Enquiry into the EconomyChapter 4. Tamed CommoditiesChapter 5. The Moral Boundaries of Farm WorkChapter 6. Workers and MachinesChapter 7. The Community Through Monetary ExchangesChapter 8. Tönnies in the West of IrelandChapter 9. The Intricacies of the GiftChapter 10. Family and GenderChapter 11. Maximising Kinship RelationsChapter 12. The Social Life of SpaceChapter 13. Individualism, Morality, and SentimentChapter 14. Work As Metaphor: The Abrogation of the EconomyConcluding RemarksImages and Imagination – A Photographic AppendixBibliographyIndex

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