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Book SynopsisOffering 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.
Trade Review‘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.’ -- Edward F Fischer, Vanderbilt University, US, and author of The Good Life
‘James Carrier’s Handbook
has established itself as an indispensable resource for economic anthropologists in the 21st century. The contributions assembled in this third edition make it as informative and innovative as its two predecessors.’ -- Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introducing economic anthropology 1 James G. Carrier PART I ORIENTATIONS 2 Marx and political economy 10 Don Robotham 3 Polanyi and social economy 24 Barry L. Isaac 4 Mauss and the gift 35 Andrew Sanchez 5 Community and economy: economy’s base 45 Stephen Gudeman 6 Provisioning and the household 56 Susana Narotzky PART II ELEMENTS 7 Natural resources: the twice-hidden abode of economic processes 72 Jaume Franquesa 8 Property 85 David Sneath 9 Production 98 Rebecca Prentice 10 Labour 110 Charlotte Bruckermann 11 Circulation and its forms 121 Maxim Bolt 12 Markets 136 Mark Busse 13 Consumption 149 Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld and Aaron C. Delgaty 14 Waste: the first and final frontier 162 Jacob Doherty PART III INTEGRATIONS 15 Gender: feminist perspectives and economic anthropology 176 Victoria Goddard and Frances Pine 16 Environment and economy: Great divide to great acceleration 191 Eric Hirsch 17 Ritual, rationality and intersections between economy and religion 204 Simon Coleman 18 Kinship and economy 216 Lale Yalçın-Heckmann 19 Migration 227 İbrahim Sirkeci and Armağan Teke Lloyd 20 Morality 239 Irene Sabaté Muriel 21 Archaeology and markets 251 Douglas K. Smit PART IV ISSUES 22 Economic ethicising 266 Stefanie Mauksch 23 The good life 277 Matthew Doyle 24 Emerging varieties of work 289 Ivan Rajković 25 Anthropology’s brief (?) obsession with neoliberalism 303 Thomas Dunk 26 Global inequality 316 Jason Hickel 27 Underlying transfers 331 Anthony J. Pickles 28 Mass mobilisations 341 Ida Susser 29 Business 353 Greg Urban 30 Commodity chains 368 André Thiemann 31 Instability 379 Donald M. Nonini 32 Anthropology with or without Home 392 Andreas Streinzer 33 Activist anthropology 406 Katharina Bodirsky PART V AFTER THE CRISIS 34 The nature of the crisis 420 Nathan Coben 35 Society is debt 433 Anush Kapadia 36 Financialisation 447 Richard H. Robbins 37 Austerity 461 Theodore Powers 38 Financial regulation 473 Daniel Seabra Lopes 39 Alternative economies 487 Patrick O’Hare 40 After the revolutions: incremental change in contemporary economics 500 Michael Blim Index
