The financial crisis and its economic and political aftermath have changed the ways that many anthropologists approach economic activities, institutions and systems. This insightful volume presents important elements of this change. With topics ranging from the relationship of states and markets...

This unique Handbook contains substantial and invaluable summary discussions of work on economic processes and issues, and on the relationship between economic and non-economic areas of life. Furthermore it describes conceptual orientations that are important among economic anthropologists, and...

Introduction / Rick Colbourne and Robert B. Anderson -- Invitation to ethical space: a dialogue on sustainability and reconciliation / Reg Crowshoe and David Lertzman -- Coyote learns commerce / Joseph Scott Gladstone -- Resistance to 'development' amongst the Kogui of the Sierra Nevada de Santa...

What does the proliferation of food festival tell us about rural areas? How can these celebrations pave the way to a better future for the local communities? This book is addressing these questions contributing to the ongoing debate about the future of rural peripheries in Europe. The volume is...

Contents: Introduction / James G. Carrier -- 1. Collective economic actors / Greg Urban -- 2. Research directions on states and markets / Felix Stein -- 3. Inequality / Tom Neumark -- 4. Debt, financialisation and politics / Fabio Mattioli -- 5. Resources: Nature, value and time / Jaume...