Research in economic anthropology : an annual compilation of research

Author(s)

• Isaac, Barry L.
• Dalton, George

Bibliographic Information

Research in economic anthropology : an annual compilation of research

JAI Press, 1978-

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Other Title

Research in economic anthropology : a research annual

Research in economic anthropology

REA

Note

Subtitle of vols. 2-13: A research annual

Vols. 14- has no subtitle

Editor: George Dalton

Vols. 6-20 / editor, Barry L. Isaac

Vols. 21- & supplement 1-<7 > with special titles

Imprint varies: v. 19-20, Stamford, Conn. : JAI , 1998-1999 -- v. 21, Amsterdam : JAI, an imprint of Elsevier Science , 2002 -- v. 22-26, Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI , 2003-2008 -- v. 27-29, Bingley, UK : Emerald JAI , 2008-2009 -- v. 30- , Bingley, UK : Emerald , 2010-

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 17 ISBN 9780762301515

Description

Part of a series which explores research in economic anthropology, this volume examines topics such as rethinking the informal economy; specialization, exchange and power in small-scale societies and chiefdoms; and approaches to prehistoric economies.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 General theory: rationality, culture and decision making, Jorge M. Rocha
• rethinking the informal economy - implications for regional analysis, Rhoda H. Halperin. Part 2 European/non-European interfaces: cargo, cards and excess - the articulation of economies in Papua New Guinea, Douglas M. Dalton
• trade, mediation and political status in the Hasinai confederacy, Daniel A. Hickerson. Part 3 Complex prehistoric economies: pathways to economic power in Maori chiefdoms - ecology and warfare in prehistoric Hawke's Bay, Mark W. Allen
• an adaptationist model of emergent complexity among hunter-gatherers in the Santa Barbara, California region, Roger H. Colten and Andrew Stewart
• specialization, exchange and power in small-scale societies and chiefdoms, Charles R. Cobb. Part 4 Approaches to prehistoric economies: approaches to classic Mayan economies, Barry L. Issac
• storage and the political economy - a view from Mesoamerica, Michael P. Smyth
• the role of attached and independent specialization in the development of sociocultural complexity, Brandon S. Lewis.

Volume

v. 18 ISBN 9780762302734

Description

Explores research in economic anthropology. This title examines topics such as rethinking the informal economy; specialization, exchange and power in small-scale societies and chiefdoms; and, approaches to prehistoric economies.

Table of Contents

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS vii INTRODUCTION 1 (16) Barry L. Isaac PART I. MONEY AND TRADITION 17 (48) ARCTIC SEAL-HUNTING HOUSEHOLDS AND THE ANTI-SEALING CONTROVERSY 17 (18) Grete K. Hovelsrud-Broda MONEY AND BEYOND: LOCAL IDENTITY AND INDIVIDUALISM IN LE PUY-EN-VELAY, FRANCE 35 (30) Meenakshi Chakraverti PART II. PASTORALIST ECONOMIES OF KENYA 65 (102) GENDER, WORK, AND CHANGE AMONG SAMBURU PASTORALISTS OF NORTHERN KENYA 65 (28) Bilinda Straight GENDER AND THE MARKET IN THE ORGANIZATION OF AGRICULTURE AMONG SAMBURU PASTORALISTS 93 (22) Jon D. Holtzman THE NEXUS OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL VIABILITIES AMONG NOMADIC PASTORALISTS IN TURKANA, KENYA 115 (52) Frode Storaas PART III. WOMEN'S WORK AND WOMEN'S STATUS 167 (66) LOOKING SMART: CONSUMPTION, CULTURAL HISTORY, AND IDENTITY AMONG BARBADIAN "SUITCASE TRADERS" 167 (16) Maria I. Quinones THE ECONOMIC IMMOBILITY OF WOMEN IN MARTINIQUE: STRUCTURAL PATTERNS, RISK, OPPORTUNITY, AND IDEOLOGY 183 (34) Katherine E. Browne THE EFFECT OF EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION ON THE STATUS OF PEASANT WIVES IN EGYPT 217 (16) Judy Brink PART IV. AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT: BRAZIL, TONGA, ZIMBABWE 233 FROM EXTRACTIVISTS TO FOREST FARMERS: CHANGING CONCEPTS OF CABOCLO AGROFORESTRY IN THE AMAZON ESTUARY 233 (48) Eduardo S. Brondizio Andrea D. Siqueira GENDER, LABOR, PRODUCTION, AND CONSUMPTION: SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURALISTS IN THE KINGDOM OF TONGA 281 (50) Charles J. Stevens HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY! LAND-USE PLANNING FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE ZAMBEZI VALLEY, ZIMBABWE 331 Bill Derman

Volume

v. 19 ISBN 9780762304462

Description

This is the 19th volume in a series of research in economic anthropology. It covers: studies of Otavalo, Ecuador; commoditization; women as consumers and producers; subsistence and market production - Siberia, Mexico, Sierra Leone; and, complex prehistoric economies - Louisiana and Illinois.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Studies of Otavalo, Ecuador: the reconquest of Otavalo, Ecuador - indigenous economic gains and new power relations, Lynn A. Meisch
• the handicraft archipelago - consumption, migration, and the social organization of a transnational Andean ethnic group, Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld
• ethnicity, property and the state - legal rhetoric and the politics of community in Otavalo, Ecuador, Elizabeth Marberry Rogers. Part 2 Commoditization: morals of praise - broadcast media and the commoditization of Jeli performances in Mali, Dorothea E. Schulz
• the tragedy of commoditization - political ecology of the Colorado River Delta's destruction, James B. Greenberg. Part 3 Women as consumers and producers: consuming women, producing men - the gendered construction of elite Jordanian shoppers, E. Anne Beal
• the family in the household - women, relationships and economic history in Peru, Susan Vincent. Part 4 Subsistence and market production - Siberia, Mexico, Sierra Leone: kinship and exchange among the Dolgan and Nganasan of northern Siberia, John P. Ziker
• the political economy of coffee in Sierra Juarez of Oaxaca, Mexico, Roberto J. Gonzalez
• why the Mende became tree-croppers, Barry L. Issac. Part 5 Complex prehistoric economies - poverty point (Louisiana) and American bottom (Illinois): elements and organization of poverty point political economy - high-water fish, exotic rocks and sacred Earth, Jon L. Gibson
• pre-Mississippian economies in the American bottom of southwestern Illinois, 3000 B.C.-A.D. 1050, Andrew C. Fortier.

Volume

v. 20 ISBN 9780762305926

Description

This volume contains 11 papers covering: Women as Artisans from Colombia and the Phillippines; Money and Witchcraft from Niger and Tanzania; Resistance to Economic Development for Canada, Mexico and the US; Changing Rural Economies from Guatemala and Kenya; and Ethnoarchaeological Studies with the topics of ceramics in Peru and state origins on Bali.

Table of Contents

List of contributors. Introduction (B.L. Isaac). PART I: Resisting and Redirecting "Development": Mexico, Canada, and The United States. Global competition and community: the struggle for social justice (D.L. Chollett). The Cheslatta Redevelopment Project: economic development and the cultural landscape of the Cheslatta T'en (S.C. Larsen). Resisting development in Cincinnati's East End (R.H. Halperin). PART II: Money, Wealth, and Affliction: Niger and Tanzania. Money and serpents, their remedy is killing: the pathology of consumption in Southern Niger (A. Masquelier). Modernity, wealth, and witchcraft in Tanzania (T. Sanders). PART III: Petty Commodity Production and Sale: Kenya and Guatemala. Economic transformation and changing work roles among pastoral Rendille and Ariaal of Northern Kenya (K. Smith). The collection of copal among the Q'eqchi' Maya: shifting liaisons and lasting Salience (P. Kockelman). PART IV: Women and Craft Production: Colombia and the Philippines. The economics of crafts among home-based workers: the women potters of La Chamba, Colombia (R.J. Duncan) Crafts, cultivation, and household economies: women's work and positions in Ifugao, Northern Philippines (B. Lynne Milgram). PART V: Ethnoarchaeological Studies: Peru and Bali. The goal of domestic autonomy among highland Peruvian farmer-potters: home economics of rural craft specialists (M.B. Hagstrum). Early statecraft on Bali: the water temple complex and the decentralization of the political economy (V.L. Scarborough, J.W. Schoenfelder and J.S. Lansing).

Volume

v. 14 ISBN 9781559385756

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Prehistoric craft specialization: textiles, women and political economy in late prehispanic Peru, Cathy Lynne Costin
• the organizational context of specialized craft production in early Mesopotamian states, Gil J. Stein and M. James Blackman
• craft specialization in nonstratified societies, John R. Cross. Part 3 Hunting and gathering: how the ancient Peigans lived, Alice B. Kehoe
• human foraging in lowland South America - pattern and process of resource procurement, Ted L. Gragson. Part 3 Longitudinal perspectives: the annual market cycle at Antigua Guatemala, John Swetnam
• household and community - the Alexanderwohl Mennoites and two counterfactuals, the Amish and Hutterites, Jeffrey Longhofer. Part 4 Method and theory - altruism and self-interest - towards an anthropological theory of decision making, Richard Wilk
• retrospective on the formalist-substantivist debate, Barry L. Isaac
• representation and experience in Kula and Western exchange spheres )or, Billy), Frederick H. Damon
• the concept of equivalences in economic anthropology, Rhoda H. Halperin.

Volume

v. 15 ISBN 9781559387842

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Africa: Growth is development, distribution is politics, Ronald Cohen
• Money lending, trust and the culture of commerce in Kabwe, Zambia, Carter A. Roeber
• Counterinsurgency and socioeconomic change: the Mau Mau war in Kirinyga, Kenya, Alonso Peter Castro, Kreg Etenger. Part 2 Mexico and Central America: Reforms of Mexico's agrarian code - impacts on the peasantry, George A. Collier
• Nafta and basic food production: dependency and marginalization on both sides of the US/Mexico border, James H. McDonald
• Changing gender relations in Zinacantan, Mexico, Mwerielle K. Flood
• The organizational logic of capitalist consumption on the Mexico-United States border, Josiah McC. Heyman
• Enduring crises: the human and environmental consequences of nontraditional export growth in Central America, Susan C. Stonich et al
• . Part 3 The Philippines: Economic strategies and success on the Philippine frontier, Miriam S. ChaiKen
• Social stratification, household wealth, and competitive feasting in 15th-16th-century Philippine chiefdomes, Laura Lee Junker et al.

Volume

v. 16 ISBN 9781559389877

Description

This sixteenth volume in the series discusses a variety of topics in the field of economic anthropology.

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Details

• NCID: BA0075065X
• ISBN:
  • 0892320400
  • 0892320850
  • 0892321148
  • 089232189X
  • 0892322217
  • 0892323574
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  • 1559389877
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  • 0762304464
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• LCCN: 79640245
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Greenwich, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • FREE : Economic anthropology -- Periodicals