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Book SynopsisContains 14 chapters that focus on various aspects of economic organization and behaviour, mostly based on empirical fieldwork conducted by the authors themselves. This title takes a look at urban food provisioning in Cameroon and an investigation into entrepreneurial activities in the rapidly-changing economy of Cairo.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Dedication. Introduction. Borrowed places: Eviction wars and property rights formalization in Kazakhstan. Resolving the problem of inequity in the distribution of wealth in Brazil: Approaches derived from the Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Louis Kelso. Is Joseph Schumpeter's theory of economic development still useful? The case of a semirural community in Colombia. Compadrazgo networks and immigrant adaptation in a Nevada town. The domestic economy and its implications for social complexity: Spondylus craft production in coastal Ecuador. an investigation into donkeys and donkey trading in Kashgar, Xinjiang, ChinaDonkey bazaar, a bazaar of hell:. Urban food provisioning in Cameroon: Regional banana plantain networks linking Yaounde and the villages of Koumou and Oban. Hostile worlds and questionable speculation: Recognizing the plurality of views about art and the market. Agents of hybridity: Class, culture brokers, and the entrepreneurial imagination in cosmopolitan Cairo. Early markets and the market cross. Shifting transactional identities: Bazaar-style trade and risk management in the prestige economy of the Gabor Roma (Romania). Reverse osmosis and a can of beans: An ethnographic study of Latin American immigrant shoppers in Nashville, Tennessee. Working hard and staying safe: Drilling rig hands in Alberta. Book review: Market and society: The great transformation today (Chris Hann and Keith Hart, Eds.). Research in Economic Anthropology. Economic Action in Theory and Practice: Anthropological Investigations. Copyright page.
