Economies and cultures: foundations of economic anthropology

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This second edition contains an entirely new chapter on gifts and exchange as well as a thoroughly updated bibliography and guide for students for finding case studies in economic anthropology.;Intro -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations and Figures -- Preface to the Second Edition -- 1 Economic Anthropology: An Undisciplined Discipline -- Controversy and Social Science -- The Formalist-Substantivist Debate -- Economic Anthropology After the Great Debate -- Can There Be a Conclusion? -- Notes -- 2 Economics and the Problem of Human Nature -- Defining the Economy -- Redefining Economic Anthropology -- Notes -- 3 Self-Interest and Neoclassical Microeconomics -- Adam Smith and the Birth of Western Economics -- The Foundations of Modern Economics -- Neoclassical Microeconomics -- Critiques of Formal Economics -- Summary: Reconciling Self-Interest and Selflessness -- Notes -- 4 Social and Political Economy -- Social Humans -- Power and Politics -- Durkheim and the Social Organism -- Karl Marx: Putting Politics into the Economy -- Varieties of Social and Political Economy -- Summary: The Problems of Structure and Agency -- Notes -- 5 The Moral Human: Cultural Economics -- Morals, Ideology, Symbols -- The Roots of Moral Economics -- The Question of Rationality and Culture -- Problems with Cultural Economics -- Cultural Economics, Round Two -- Summary: How Much Does Culture Determine? -- Notes -- 6 Gifts and Exchange -- Three Analyses of Potlatching -- But What Is a Gift? -- Linking Mauss and Marx -- Reciprocity and Gifting -- Accumulating Value in the Gift -- Beyond Value -- Mutual Recognition and the Gift -- Conclusions -- Note -- 7 Conclusions: Complex Economic Human Beings -- The Case of the Leaking Houses -- The Problem of Explaining Things -- Resolving the Fundamental Issues -- Rethinking Human Nature -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Appendix: Where to Look for More- Finding Literature in Economic Anthropology -- Bibliography -- Index. Intro -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations and Figures -- Preface to the Second Edition -- 1 Economic Anthropology: An Undisciplined Discipline -- Controversy and Social Science -- The Formalist-Substantivist Debate -- Economic Anthropology After the Great Debate -- Can There Be a Conclusion? -- Notes -- 2 Economics and the Problem of Human Nature -- Defining the Economy -- Redefining Economic Anthropology -- Notes -- 3 Self-Interest and Neoclassical Microeconomics -- Adam Smith and the Birth of Western Economics -- The Foundations of Modern Economics -- Neoclassical Microeconomics -- Critiques of Formal Economics -- Summary: Reconciling Self-Interest and Selflessness -- Notes -- 4 Social and Political Economy -- Social Humans -- Power and Politics -- Durkheim and the Social Organism -- Karl Marx: Putting Politics into the Economy -- Varieties of Social and Political Economy -- Summary: The Problems of Structure and Agency -- Notes -- 5 The Moral Human: Cultural Economics -- Morals, Ideology, Symbols -- The Roots of Moral Economics -- The Question of Rationality and Culture -- Problems with Cultural Economics -- Cultural Economics, Round Two -- Summary: How Much Does Culture Determine? -- Notes -- 6 Gifts and Exchange -- Three Analyses of Potlatching -- But What Is a Gift? -- Linking Mauss and Marx -- Reciprocity and Gifting -- Accumulating Value in the Gift -- Beyond Value -- Mutual Recognition and the Gift -- Conclusions -- Note -- 7 Conclusions: Complex Economic Human Beings -- The Case of the Leaking Houses -- The Problem of Explaining Things -- Resolving the Fundamental Issues -- Rethinking Human Nature -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Appendix: Where to Look for More- Finding Literature in Economic Anthropology -- Bibliography -- Index.