Explorations in Economic Anthropology : : Key Issues and Critical Reflections / / ed. by Kirsten W. Endres, Deema Kaneff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Arnason, Johann P.,; Brumann, Christoph,; Buchowski, Michał,; Dukes, Ruth,; Endres, Kirsten W.,; Gellner, David N.,; Gingrich, Andre,; Gregory, Chris,; Gudeman, Stephen,; Heintz, Monica,; Kaneff, Deema,; Pine, Frances,; Sampson, Steven,; Schnepel, Burkhard,; Stewart, Michael,; Streeck, Wolfgang,; Swain, Nigel,; Sárkány, Mihály,; Troebst, Stefan,; Vargyas, Gábor,; Yalçın-Heckmann, Lale,
• HerausgeberIn: Endres, Kirsten W.,; Kaneff, Deema,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)

At a time of rising global economic precarity and social inequality, the field of economic anthropology offers solutions through the study of local and contextualized economic practices. This book is made up of an exciting collection of succinct essays authored by leading scholars primarily from the field of economic anthropology, but also featuring contributions from sociology and history. The chapters engage with debates at the cutting edge of research on the topics of Eurasia, the anthropology of postsocialism and the embeddedness of economic practices.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Chris Hann and the Anthropological Study of Economic Life -- Part I Reconsidering (Post)Socialist Spaces -- Chapter 1 Civilizations and Economies: Notes on a Neglected Theme -- Chapter 2 From Halecki to Hann: The Historiography of Historical Regions -- Chapter 3 Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire, or Modernization Forever? Economic Strategies in the Transformation of Peasant Societies -- Chapter 4 Something to Be Nostalgic About? Goulash Socialist and Postsocialist Rural Society in Hungary -- Chapter 5 Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone: The Indivisibility of Economic and Discursive Aspects in Neoliberal and Populist Regimes in Poland -- Chapter 6 Making a Reality of Other People’s Fictions: A Smithian Critique of Post-Marxian and Polanyi-ite Accounts of Exploitation -- Chapter 7 Resilience and Surveillance in Hann’s Eurasia -- Part II Economic Anthropology in a Changing World -- Chapter 8 Hijra, Port and Market: Pre-Ottoman Economies in Southwest Arabia’s Zaydi Realm -- Chapter 9 From Social Norms to Legal Norms: Regulating Work in Postneoliberal Political Economies -- Chapter 10 The Moral Economy of Anthropological Scholarship -- Chapter 11 Some Thoughts on Embeddedness, Value and the Moral Dimension in the Work of Chris Hann -- Chapter 12 Property, Resources and Gauging Social Change -- Chapter 13 Birth, Property and the Male Descendant: Some Evidence from India -- Chapter 14 What Has Happened to Turkish Tea? Thoughts on a Cash Crop, the Turkish State and Society in This Millennium -- Part III Economies of the Sacred and Secular -- Chapter 15 Economy Is a Ritual -- Chapter 16 The Rice, the Rice Goddess and the Sickle: An Agricultural ‘Revolution’ among the Bru of Khe Sanh, 1989 -- Chapter 17 The Dharma and the Dime: Money and Buddhist Morality -- Chapter 18 Stealing Goddesses: The Political Economy of Kingship in Premodern India -- Chapter 19 Dalits and the Market Liberation or Oppression? -- Chapter 20 Polanyi Goes to Mauritius: Economy and Society in the Postcolony -- Publications by Chris Hann -- Index