The Anthropology of Economy
Subtitle: Community, Market, and Culture
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: September 1, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780631225676
First sentence: Economic anthropology attends to industrial life as well as ethnographic situations, because comparable processes in securing and managing valued things are found everywhere.
Description: "This book illustrates that, across cultures, economy can be understood as a combination of both community and market forces. Drawing from the work of anthropologists, as well as that of economists, sociologists, historians, geographers, feminists, and post-Marxists, Gudeman presents an anthropological approach to economy that highlights the centrality of communal processes in the market.

His inclusion of more than fifty cross-cultural examples from historical and contemporary contexts will clearly demonstrate to readers the significance of this distinctive model.".

"Ultimately, The Anthropology of Economy furnishes readers with a new language for discussing and reconceptualizing vital contemporary issues: including the emergence and distribution of profit, the effects of expanding capital on marginalized people and the environment, and our shifting identities in response to the growth of global markets."--BOOK JACKET.