Anthropology and Politics of Commodity Exchange
Publisher: Gordon and Breach
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780203986639
Subjects: Money; Economics
Description: A theoretically and ethnographically informed collection of essays which opens up questions through an examination of concrete cases, covering global and local questions of political economy.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Preliminaries; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Maps; Preface; I The Value Question; II Beyond Gifts and Commodities; III Land as the Supreme Good; IV Production of Commodities by Means of Goods; V Mercantile Kinship; VI Usury Interest and Usance; VII Domesticated Money; VIII Savage Money; IX Toward a Radical Humanist Anthropology; Bibliography; Index.