Description
Book SynopsisDrawing upon their joint fieldwork, the authors cast this book as a conversation involving themselves, a Colombian rural people, and the writings of past economists. In their view, the material practices of the rural folk constitute a house model of the economy, and the Colombian voices provide a window on prior European fold conversations about the house.
Trade Review'This book deserves to become recognized as the finest achievement so far in the field of economic anthropology: the sort of landmark volume which has become regrettably scarce in the expanded lists of this decade. Conversations in Columbia is a wonderful synthesis of oral investigations and literate scholarship which restores intellectual integrity to the field of economic anthropology and deserves to set its agenda for years to come.' Keith Hart, University of Cambridge
Table of ContentsList of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Conversations; 2. The strength of the earth; 3. The house; 4. The base; 5. The advance and the increase; 6. Work for the house; 7. Remainders; 8. The house and the market; 9. Making savings; 10. From house to corps; Notes; References; Index.
