Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introducing economic anthropology -- Changing economic anthropology -- 1 Production and what is produced -- Ponam fishing -- Colombian peasants -- Jamaican fishermen -- 2 Changing...

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...

The first edition of this unique Handbook was praised for its substantial and invaluable summary discussions of work by anthropologists on economic processes and issues, on the relationship between economic and non-economic areas of life and on the conceptual orientations that are important...

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...