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Economies and Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology
By Richard R. Wilk
212 pages
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- Westview Press
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- Boulder, CO
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Synopsis
This text is the first synthesis of modern economic anthropology for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. It goes to the heart of an emerging subdiscipline and identifies the fundamental practical and theoretical problems that give economic anthropology its unique strengths and vision. Tracing the history of the dialogue between anthropology and economics, Richard Wilk identifies three recurring arguments about human nature and the moral basis of human action. Modern economic ...
This text is the first synthesis of modern economic anthropology for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. It goes to the heart of an emerging subdiscipline and identifies the fundamental practical and theoretical problems that give economic anthropology its unique strengths and vision. Tracing the history of the dialogue between anthropology and economics, Richard Wilk identifies three recurring arguments about human nature and the moral basis of human action. Modern economic anthropology, he says, emerges from the controversies and tensions between these radically different propositions about the essence of humanity. More than any other anthropological subdiscipline, economic anthropology constantly questions and debates the practical motives of people as they go about their daily lives. Wilk moves economic anthropology beyond the narrow concerns of earlier debates and places the field directly at the center of current issues in the social sciences. He focuses on the unique strengths of economic anthropology as a meeting place for symbolic and materialist approaches, and for understanding humanity as both practical and cultural. In doing so, he argues for the wider relevance of economic anthropology to applied anthropology and identifies other avenues for interaction with economics, sociology, and other social and natural sciences. This short text is designed to be used with monographs or collections as a core reading for economic anthropology courses. It will complement other texts in general sociocultural anthropology courses and in graduate core courses, and it will be a useful supplement in teaching ecological and applied anthropology.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Illustrations and Figures vii
- Preface: Becoming an Economic Anthropologist ix
- Acknowledgments xvi
- 1 - Economic Anthropology: An Undisciplined Discipline 1
- Conclusion? 24
- 2 - Economics and the Problem of Human Nature 27
- Notes 41
- 3 - Self-Interest and Neoclassical Microeconomics 43
- Summary 70
- 4 - Social and Political Economy 73
- Notes 100
- 5 - The Moral Human: Cultural Economics 103
- Summary: How Much Does Culture Determine? 130
- 6 - Conclusions: Complex Economic Human Beings 135
- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Illustrations and Figures vii
- Preface: Becoming an Economic Anthropologist ix
- Acknowledgments xvi
- 1 - Economic Anthropology: An Undisciplined Discipline 1
- Conclusion? 24
- 2 - Economics and the Problem of Human Nature 27
- Notes 41
- 3 - Self-Interest and Neoclassical Microeconomics 43
- Summary 70
- 4 - Social and Political Economy 73
- Notes 100
- 5 - The Moral Human: Cultural Economics 103
- Summary: How Much Does Culture Determine? 130
- 6 - Conclusions: Complex Economic Human Beings 135
- Conclusions 153
- Appendix: Where to Look for More-- Finding Literature in Economic Anthropology 157
- Bibliography 164
- About the Book and Author 180
- Index 181