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Economic Anthropology
$25.95
Edited by Stuart Plattner
Book
Economic Anthropology
$25.95
Edited by Stuart Plattner
Book
ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY Edited, with an Introduction, by Stuart Plattner Originally published in 1989, this volume was the first comprehensive text in economic anthropology since the 1970’s. Written by twelve leading scholars, the book covers the traditional topics of economic behavior and institutions in foraging bands, horticultural tribes, pre-capitalist states, agrarian or peasant societies and industrialized states, as well as issues such as sex roles, common property resources, the informal sector, and mass marketing in developing urban areas. It included more in-depth coverage of some subjects than does any other text in the field, subjects like the central place theory of markets and marketplaces and the fundamentals of economic behavior in markets. The approach is empirical and, though not ignoring controversy, aims to tell the reader what we know about the world rather than recording how we came to know it or disputing alternative views of the finer points of what we know. The work presented here is more analytic than descriptive. The historical context of the observed social reality is given due consideration, and important parameters (such as the development of social infrastructure or the degree of risk in a transaction) are distinguished from enduring institutional constraints, such as kinship obligations. Individuals are seen as full “rational,” in that their solutions to their economic problems make sense once one understands the many constraints (social, cultural, cognitive, and political, as well as economic) that they must take into account. This does not mean that their actions are optimal – merely that the analysis will make the behavior, or for that matter the institutions, understandable as a reasoned human response to a complex situation. The contributors are James M. Acheson, Peggy F. Barlett, Frances Berdan, Laurel Bossen, Frank Cancian, Elizabeth Cashdan, Norbert Dannhaeuser, Christina H. Gladwin, Allen Johnson, Stuart Plattner, William Roseberry, and M. Estellie Smith. At the time of publication, Stuart Plattner was Program Director for Cultural Anthropology at the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., and the editor of, Markets and Marketing, and Formal Methods in Economic Anthropology. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the 1989 publication by Stanford University Press (ISBN 0804716455). Please review the preview file to see some of the imperfections that will appear in the print edition. Table of Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 1 Stuart Plattner 2. Hunters and Gatherers: Economic Behavior in Bands 21 Elizabeth Cashdan 3. Horticulturalists: Economic Behavior in Tribes 49 Allen Johnson 4. Trade and Markets in Precapitalist States 78 Frances F. Berdan 5. Peasants and the World 108 William Roseberry 6. Economic Behavior in Peasant Communities 127 Frank Cancian 7. Markets and Marketplaces 171 Stuart Plattner 8. Economic Behavior in Markets 209 Stuart Plattner 9. Marketing in Developing Urban Areas 222 Norbert Dannhaeuser 10. Industrial Agriculture 253 Peggy F. Barlett 11. The Informal Economy 292 M. Estellie Smith 12. Women and Economic Institutions 318 Laurel Bossen 13. Management of Common-Property Resources 351 James M. Acheson 14. Marxism 379 Stuart Plattner 15. On the Division of Labor Between Economics And Economic Anthropology 397 Christina H. Gladwin References Cited 429 Index 483
