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Chapter 4 The Gift and Reciprocity: Perspectives from Economic Anthropology

Hann, Chris - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 207-223). 2006

Economic anthropology is a contested area of interdisciplinary research. Although some practitioners define the task as …

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Critique as collaboration in design anthropology

Forlano, Laura; Smith, Stephanie - In: Journal of business anthropology 7 (2018) 2, pp. 279-300

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How does moral knowledge matter in development practice, and how can it be researched?

Scholtes, Fabian - 2009

review of seminal contributions to Anthropology of Development, I suggest that the analysis of development practice needs to … perspective conceptually and in terms of operationalisation. For the conceptual part, I draw upon anthropology of morality to show … several aspects of moral knowledge, as well as problems of researching it. I also relate to anthropology of knowledge in order …

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Theories of the Family and Policy

Jacobsen, Veronica; Fursman, Lindy; Bryant, John; … - 2004

and individual behaviour for the likely success of policy intervention. Anthropology documents not only the universality …

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What does it mean to be poor? Investigating the qualitative-quantitative divide in Mozambique

Jones, Sam; Tvedten, Inge - 2018

This paper reflects on the relationship between economic (quantitative) and anthropological (qualitative) approaches to the analysis of poverty in developing countries. Drawing on detailed evidence from Mozambique, we argue that different research approaches do not merely see the same poverty...

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Review of The Anthropology of Globalization

Touval, Amitai - In: New Global Studies 2 (2008) 3

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Who dares, wins: heroism versus altruism in women's mate choice

Kelly, Susan; Dunbar, R. I. M. - 2001

based at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford. …

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Strategic recognition: Watching the state in Shenzhen

O'Donnell, Mary Ann; O'Donnell, Mary Ann - 1999

Based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, People's Republic of China, I offer a reading of Reform and Opening (Gaige Kaifang) in terms of how individuals recognized, manipulated, avoided, and responded to the Chinese state apparatus during the Deng...

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Modeling in Branding: a critical ethnography approach

El-Amir, Ayman; Burt, Steven Leslie - 2010

Purpose- The paper aims to shed light on the potential of ethnography to provide a dialectical approach to modeling the process of branding as its focus widens from managerial to social.Design/methodology/approach- A critical approach to ethnography is adopted and implemented in light of the...

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The Evolution of Market Niches in Oaxacan Woodcarving

Chibnik, Michael S. - 2000

Economic anthropologists studying craft commercialization have typically focused on changes in work organization associated with new international commodity chains linking artisans, development organizations, wholesalers, and store owners. Few researchers, however, have carefully examined the...

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