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  • Enlightening Encounters

    The Journeys of an Anthropologist

    by Stephen Gudeman ...
    One of the world's top anthropologists recounts his formative experiences doing fieldwork in this accessible memoir ideal for anyone interested in anthropology.Drawing on his research in five Latin American countries, Steve Gudeman describes his anthropological fieldwork, bringing to life the excitement of gaining an understanding of the practices and ideas of others as well as the frustrations. ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Enlightening Encounters

    The Journeys of an Anthropologist

    by Stephen Gudeman ...
    One of the world's top anthropologists recounts his formative experiences doing fieldwork in this accessible memoir ideal for anyone interested in anthropology.Drawing on his research in five Latin American countries, Steve Gudeman describes his anthropological fieldwork, bringing to life the excitement of gaining an understanding of the practices and ideas of others as well as the frustrations. ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Economy's Tension

    The Dialectics of Community and Market

    by Stephen Gudeman ...
    Why are we obsessed with calculating our selections? The author argues that competitive trade nurtures calculative reason, which provides the ground for most discourses on economy. But market descriptions of economy are incomplete. Drawing on a range of materials from small ethnographic contexts to global financial markets, the author shows that economy is dialectically made up of two value realms ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Economy's Tension

    The Dialectics of Community and Market

    by Stephen Gudeman ...
    Why are we obsessed with calculating our selections? The author argues that competitive trade nurtures calculative reason, which provides the ground for most discourses on economy. But market descriptions of economy are incomplete. Drawing on a range of materials from small ethnographic contexts to global financial markets, the author shows that economy is dialectically made up of two value realms ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Anthropology and Economy

    by Stephen Gudeman ...
    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    Comparative and critical, Anthropology and Economy offers a uniquely cross-cultural view of economy. Using examples from market and non-market situations, the book shows how economies are built on five increasingly abstract spheres, from the house to community, commerce, finance, and meta-finance. Across these spheres, economy incorporates a tension between self-interested rationality and the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Demise of a Rural Economy

    From Subsistence to Capitalism in a Latin American Village

    by Stephen Gudeman ...
    Bridging a gap between macro- and micro- viewpoints, the work shows the ways in which an economy is socially and historically determined. Subsistence is shown to be not only a form of agriculture but a determinant economic organisation and particular attention is paid to the problem of understanding patterns of distribution and the constitution of the surplus in the peasant economy. First ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Economic Persuasions

    Edited by Stephen Gudeman ...
    Series Book 3 - Studies in Rhetoric and Culture
    As the transition from socialism to a market economy gathered speed in the early 1990s, many people proclaimed the final success of capitalism as a practice and neoliberal economics as its accompanying science. But with the uneven achievements of the “transition”—the deepening problems of “development,” persistent unemployment, the widening of the wealth gap, and expressions of resistance—the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Economic Persuasions

    Edited by Stephen Gudeman ...
    Series Book 3 - Studies in Rhetoric and Culture
    As the transition from socialism to a market economy gathered speed in the early 1990s, many people proclaimed the final success of capitalism as a practice and neoliberal economics as its accompanying science. But with the uneven achievements of the “transition”—the deepening problems of “development,” persistent unemployment, the widening of the wealth gap, and expressions of resistance—the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Relationships, Residence and the Individual

    A Rural Panamanian Community

    by Stephen Gudeman ...
    Representing a departure from traditional studies of social organisation, the book asserts that a kinship system is best understood as a system of concepts rather than as a set of empirical relationships. Three aspects of life in the Panamanian community of Los Boquerones are described First published in 1976. ... Read more

    $65.99 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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  • 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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    Groundwork for a New Economics

    by Kaushik Basu ...
    Why economics needs to focus on fairness and not just efficiencyOne of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible hand. This deep insight has, over the past two centuries, been taken out of context, contorted, and used as the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD