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Comparative and critical, Anthropology and Economy offers a uniquely cross-cultural view of econo...

According to accepted wisdom, rational practices and ritual action are opposed. Rituals drain wea...

Self-sufficiency of the house is practiced in many parts of the world but ignored in economic the...

As the transition from socialism to a market economy gathered speed in the early 1990s, many peop...

Bridging a gap between macro- and micro- viewpoints, the work shows the ways in which an economy ...

Self-sufficiency of the house is practiced in many parts of the world but ignored in economic the...

Representing a departure from traditional studies of social organisation, the book asserts that a...

According to accepted wisdom, rational practices and ritual action are opposed. Rituals drain wea...

Drawing upon their joint fieldwork, the authors cast this book as a conversation involving themse...

As the transition from socialism to a market economy gathered speed in the early 1990s, many peop...

Comparative and critical, Anthropology and Economy offers a uniquely cross-cultural view of econo...