Through fieldwork accounts, here, the anthropologists explore the ways money has influenced their perceptions and understandings of culture. These accounts raise questions such as: How do anthropologists come to know another culture through ordinary experiences with money? and, How is...

Approaching “work” as at heart a practice of exchange, this volume explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary “flexible” capitalism. It introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership, and shows...

From the history of Porta Palazzo, Western Europe's largest open-air market, to its current growing pains, this book turns an ethnographic eye on a meeting place for trade, cultural identity, and cuisine.

The first comprehensive guide to anthropological studies of complex organizations Offers the first comprehensive reference to the anthropological study of complex organizations Details how organizational theory and research in business has adopted anthropologyâ s key concept of culture,...

"This book provides a broad knowledge and understanding of bi-culturalism in practice within the applied social sciences domains. Covering both key theory and practices, it examines different types of bi-culturalism in practice frameworks being developed and followed, especially in the developed...

Volume 40 of Research in Economic Anthropology explores current issues in national and international policy, cost and debt, business and capitalism, and economic theory and behavior specifically pertaining to Brazil. The underlying theme running through the collection is the steady encroachment...