Cultural economies past and present

Author(s)

• Halperin, Rhoda H.

Bibliographic Information

Cultural economies past and present

by Rhoda H. Halperin

（Texas Press sourcebooks in anthropology, no. 18）

University of Texas Press, 1994

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780292730892

Description

When anthropologists and other students of culture want to compare different societies in such areas as the organization of land, labor, trade, or barter, they often discover that individual researchers use these concepts inconsistently and from a variety of theoretical approaches, so that data from one society cannot be compared with data from another. In this book, Rhoda Halperin offers an analytical tool kit for studying economic processes in all societies and at all times. She uniquely organizes the book around key concepts: economy, ecology, equivalencies, householding, storage, and time and the economy. These concepts are designed to facilitate the understanding of similarities, differences, and changes between contemporary and past economies. While this is not only a how-to book or handbook, it can be used as such. It will be of great value to scholars and students of archaeology and history, as well as to ethnographers and economists.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780292730908

Description

When anthropologists and other students of culture want to compare different societies in such areas as the organization of land, labor, trade, or barter, they often discover that individual researchers use these concepts inconsistently and from a variety of theoretical approaches, so that data from one society cannot be compared with data from another. In this book, Rhoda Halperin offers an analytical tool kit for studying economic processes in all societies and at all times. She uniquely organizes the book around key concepts: economy, ecology, equivalencies, householding, storage, and time and the economy. These concepts are designed to facilitate the understanding of similarities, differences, and changes between contemporary and past economies. While this is not only a "how-to" book or handbook, it can be used as such. It will be of great value to scholars and students of archaeology and history, as well as to ethnographers and economists.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction One. Methodological Individualism: Structure and Agency in Economic Anthropology Two. Marx's Institutional Paradigm and Polanyi's Generic Model of the Economy Three. Economy and Ecology: Basic Concepts, Their History, and Applications Four. Equivalencies in Economic Anthropology Five. Householding: Resistance and Livelihood in Rural Economies Six. Storage as an Economic Process Seven. A Cross-Cultural Treatment of the Informal Economy Eight. Time and the Economy: A Substantive Perspective Nine. Looking Backward and Forward on Concepts of the Economy: The Discourse of Economic Anthropology in Historical and Comparative Perspective Notes Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BA24093622
• ISBN:
  • 0292730896
  • 029273090X
• LCCN: 94015762
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Austin
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 309 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC8 : 361.5
  • LCC : GN448
  • DC20 : 306.3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Economic anthropology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA01451155