Choice in economic contexts ethnographic and theoretical enquiries

This 25th volume in the Research in Economic Anthropology series contains 12 original papers, nine empirical ethnographic studies and three theoretical essays - all linked by a common concern with economic choice in various social and cultural situations, and authored by researchers in anthropology,...

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Other Authors Wood, Donald C.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2006.
SeriesResearch in economic anthropology ; v. 25.
Subjects
Economic anthropology.
Commerce > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Consumption (Economics) > Cross-cultural studies.
Labor > Social aspects.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849504638
ISSN0190-1281 ;
DOI10.1016/S0190-1281(2006)25
Physical Description1 online resource (x, 298 p.).

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Table of Contents:
  • Migration in times of globalization : the central valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico / Martha Woodson Rees
  • Social conditions of foreign laborers in a meatpacking factory in rural Southern Taiwan / Winston Tseng
  • To hire an Albanian : household economy and immigration in rural Greece / Christopher Lawrence
  • This is different, this is the plaza : space, gender, and tactics in the work of Moroccan tourist sector henna artisans / Patricia L. Kelly Spurles
  • Economic anthroplogy Of Bangkok Go-Go bars : risk and opportunity in a bazaar-type market for interpersonally embedded services / Junpei Ichinosawa
  • Transnational consumer goods corporations in Egypt : reaching towards the mass market / Michaela Kehrer
  • Conceptualizations of death in a commercial context : the funeral business in present-day Japan / Daisuke Tanaka
  • The effect of infrastructure development on fictive kin choice patterns in rural Paraguay / Christina Turner
  • Wayúu crafts : a dilemma of culture and development / Andrés Marroquín Gramajo
  • Karl Polanyi On The Limitations Of Formalism In Economics / James Ronald Stanfield, Michael C. Carroll, and Mary V. Wrenn
  • Choice and the substantivist/formalist debate : a formal presentation of three substantivist criticisms / Justin A. Elardo and Al Campbell
  • The end of potlatch : an anthropological approach to Nostromo / Tamá Juhász.

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