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  • Economic Anthropology

    This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropologists have contributed to understanding the three great questions of modern economic history: development, socialism and one-world capitalism. In doing so, they connect economic anthropology to its roots in Western philosophy, social theory and world ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis

    Eurasian Explorations

    Series series SUNY series, Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies
    This volume brings social and cultural anthropologists into dialogue with historical sociology and illustrates the continued potential of the concept of civilization for all participants.The concept of civilization has a long but checkered history in anthropology, and anthropological materials have been of great importance for the development of civilizational analysis in historical sociology. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Head Over Heels Forever

    Save Your Marriage, Your Sanity, and Your Sex Life (Before It's Too Late)

    SAY GOODBYE TO ROMANCE? NO WAY!Don’t settle for less than a passionate, heart-pumping love affair. With raw honesty, fresh humor, and practical insights, Chris and Melina Hann unlock secrets to reignite your romance, spice up your love life, and discover new levels of intimacy. Drawn from personal experience and solid research, their easy-to-grasp advice is fun to read and even more fun to apply. ... Read more

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  • Head Over Heels Forever

    Save Your Marriage, Your Sanity, and Your Sex Life (Before It's Too Late)

    SAY GOODBYE TO ROMANCE? NO WAY!Don’t settle for less than a passionate, heart-pumping love affair. With raw honesty, fresh humor, and practical insights, Chris and Melina Hann unlock secrets to reignite your romance, spice up your love life, and discover new levels of intimacy. Drawn from personal experience and solid research, their easy-to-grasp advice is fun to read and even more fun to apply. ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Civil Society

    Challenging Western Models

    Edited by Elizabeth Dunn, Chris Hann ...
    Series series European Association of Social Anthropologists
    Between kinship ties on the one hand and the state on the other, human beings experience a diversity of social relationships and groupings which in modern western thought have come to be gathered under the label 'civil society'. A liberal-individualist model of civil society has become fashionable in recent years, but what can such a term mean in the late twentieth century?Civil Society argues ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Economy and Ritual

    Studies of Postsocialist Transformations

    Edited by Stephen Gudeman, Chris Hann ...
    Series Book 1 - Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
    According to accepted wisdom, rational practices and ritual action are opposed. Rituals drain wealth from capital investment and draw on a mode of thought different from practical ideas. The studies in this volume contest this view. Comparative, historical, and contemporary, the six ethnographies extend from Macedonia to Kyrgyzstan. Each one illuminates the economic and ritual changes in an area ... Read more

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  • One Hundred Years of Argonauts

    Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology

    Edited by Chris Hann, Deborah James ...
    Series Book 13 - Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
    Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific was a major contribution to anthropological theory and method, while simultaneously establishing the sub-field of economic anthropology. Even a century after its publication, Malinowski’s pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work ... Read more

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  • Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism

    Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject

    Edited by Chris Hann, Jonathan Parry ...
    Series Book 4 - Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
    Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much to state policies and is reflected in local understandings of class. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim ... Read more

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  • Oikos and Market

    Explorations in Self-Sufficiency after Socialism

    Edited by Stephen Gudeman, Chris Hann ...
    Series Book 2 - Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
    Self-sufficiency of the house is practiced in many parts of the world but ignored in economic theory, just as socialist collectivization is assumed to have brought household self-sufficiency to an end. The ideals of self-sufficiency, however, continue to shape economic activity in a wide range of postsocialist settings. This volume’s six comparative studies of postsocialist villages in Eastern ... Read more

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  • Work, Society, and the Ethical Self

    Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era

    Edited by Chris Hann ...
    Series Book 7 - Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
    Primarily on the basis of ethnographic case-studies from around the world, this volume links investigations of work to questions of personal and professional identity and social relations. In the era of digitalized neoliberalism, particular attention is paid to notions of freedom, both collective (in social relations) and individual (in subjective experiences). These cannot be investigated ... Read more

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  • Financialization

    Relational Approaches

    Edited by Chris Hann, Don Kalb ...
    Series Book 6 - Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
    Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume then continues with a rich set of contemporary ethnographic case studies from Europe, Asia and Africa. Authors explore the ways in which finance inserts itself into relationships of class and kinship, how it adapts to non-Western religious traditions, and how it reconfigures legal and ecological ... Read more

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