Explorations in Economic Anthropology: Key Issues and Critical Reflections

Published by Berghahn Books 2021

Explorations in Economic Anthropology

Key Issues and Critical Reflections

Edited by: Deema Kaneff and Kirsten W. Endres

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800731400

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Deema Kaneff is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Birmingham in the UK and Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany.

Kirsten W. Endres is Head of Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany. Her books include Market Frictions: Trade and Urbanization at the Vietnam-China Border (Berghahn, 2019).

Deema Kaneff is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Birmingham in the UK and Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany.

Reviews

“This is an impressive collection of essays that spans a huge array of themes, topics, writing styles and historical periods… The volume as a whole brings up lively conversations about a variety of themes in economic anthropology, and groups of the contributions can be used for class teaching on particular themes.” • Minh Nguyen, Bielefeld University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction: Chris Hann and the Anthropological Study of Economic Life Kirsten W. Endres and Deema Kaneff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Reconsidering (Post)Socialist Spaces
Chapter 1 Civilizations and Economies: Notes on a Neglected Theme Johann P. Arnason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 2 From Halecki to Hann: The Historiography of Historical Regions Stefan Troebst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Chapter 3 Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire, or Modernization Forever? Economic Strategies in the Transformation of Peasant Societies Mihály Sárkány Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Chapter 4 Something to Be Nostalgic About? Goulash Socialist and Postsocialist Rural Society in Hungary Nigel Swain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Chapter 5 Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone: The Indivisibility of Economic and Discursive Aspects in Neoliberal and Populist Regimes in Poland Michał Buchowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Chapter 6 Making a Reality of Other People’s Fictions: A Smithian Critique of Post-Marxian and Polanyi-ite Accounts of Exploitation Michael Stewart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Chapter 7 Resilience and Surveillance in Hann’s Eurasia Steven Sampson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
Part II Economic Anthropology in a Changing World
Chapter 8 Hijra, Port and Market: Pre-Ottoman Economies in Southwest Arabia’s Zaydi Realm Andre Gingrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Chapter 9 From Social Norms to Legal Norms: Regulating Work in Postneoliberal Political Economies Ruth Dukes and Wolfgang Streeck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Chapter 10 The Moral Economy of Anthropological Scholarship Monica Heintz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Chapter 11 Some Thoughts on Embeddedness, Value and the Moral Dimension in the Work of Chris Hann Frances Pine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Chapter 12 Property, Resources and Gauging Social Change Deema Kaneff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Chapter 13 Birth, Property and the Male Descendant: Some Evidence from India Chris Gregory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Chapter 14 What Has Happened to Turkish Tea? Thoughts on a Cash Crop, the Turkish State and Society in This Millennium Lale Yalçın-Heckmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Part III Economies of the Sacred and Secular
Chapter 15 Economy Is a Ritual Stephen Gudeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Chapter 16 The Rice, the Rice Goddess and the Sickle: An Agricultural ‘Revolution’ among the Bru of Khe Sanh, 1989 Gábor Vargyas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Chapter 17 The Dharma and the Dime: Money and Buddhist Morality Christoph Brumann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Chapter 18 Stealing Goddesses: The Political Economy of Kingship in Premodern India Burkhard Schnepel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Chapter 19 Dalits and the Market Liberation or Oppression? David N. Gellner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Chapter 20 Polanyi Goes to Mauritius: Economy and Society in the Postcolony Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Publications by Chris Hann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 316
Keywords: Political and Economic Anthropology; Sociology

eBook

Published: July 16, 2021
ISBN: 9781800731400