The moral embedding of economic action
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The moral embedding of economic action
（Oxford in India readings in sociology and social anthropology, . Sociology and anthropology of economic life ; 1）
Oxford University Press, 2010
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内容説明
This is the first of two readers on the sociology and anthropology of economic life that together provide an account of major issues in the area of economic anthropology and sociology as they pertain to the study of Indian society and culture. This volume, Sociology and Anthropology of Economic Life 1: The Moral Embedding of Economic Action, focuses on the ways in which ethical, moral, and affective forces are constitutive of activities such as production, exchange, and consumption that we habitually characterize as 'economic'. The focus is largely on the village, considered an important site for understanding the local processes within which moral economies are embedded; these local and moral economies, however, are not isolated from global processes. In the first section, the essays examine important conceptual issues regarding the appropriate categories for understanding economic relations in rural India. At the same time, they direct attention to tensions between anthropological methods and those typically used in economics and history.
The contributions in section II show the technological transformations of nature as a result of state policies relating to consolidation of land records; projects of land redistribution to the poor; and generally addressing the national project of acquiring self-sufficiency in food by increasing agricultural production. In section III, questions such as how do we evaluate our actions in moral terms; what bodily dispositions are learnt in the process of work; how existing notions of morality or social hierarchies affect the emergence of newness, are addressed. This reader will be useful for students and scholars of sociology and anthropology, economics, and development studies.
目次
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- 1. INTRODUCTION (VEENA DAS AND RANENDRA K. DAS)
- 1. Reading the Ethnographic Record: Conceptual and Methodological Issues
- 2. Class Structure in an Agrarian Society: The Case of the Jotedars (Andre Beteille)
- 3. Misconceiving the Grain Heap: A Critique of the Concept of the Indian Jajmani System (C.J. Fuller)
- 4. Knowing About Rural Economic Change: Problems Arising From a Comparison of the Results of 'Macro' and 'Micro' Research in Tamil Nadu (John Harris)
- SECTION II - NATURE, INSTITUTIONS AND ENVIRONMENT
- 5. 'Indigenous' Knowledges: Ecology (Akhil Gupta)
- 6. The Local Politics of Groundwater in North Gujarat (Navroz K. Dubash)
- 7. Perspectives on Commons' Encroachment (Rita Brara)
- SECTION III - SENTIMENTS, VALUES AND AFFECTS
- 8. 'Let the Water for the Paddy Also Irrigate the Grass': On the Sympathetic Currents of the Aqueous Self (Anand Pandian)
- 9. On the Moral Perils of Exchange (Johathan Parry)
- 10. Women's Work: Quilt Making and Gift Giving (Deepak Mehta)
- 11. On Living in the Kal(i)yug: Notes from Nagda, Madhya Pradesh (Christopher Pinney)
- Newcomers to the World of Goods: Consumption among the Muria Gonds (Alfred Gell)
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
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