Front Cover -- From Land to Mouth: The Agricultural "Economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1 The Agricultural "Economy -- CHAPTER 2 Economics and the Self-Interested Individual -- CHAPTER 3 Community and the...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Stevan Harrell -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Liangshan and Its Entrepreneurs -- 1 | Nuosu Traditional Culture and Social Change -- 2 | The Liangshan Economic Setting and Private Entrepreneurs -- 3 | Private Sector Development in Nine Liangshan Counties -- 4...

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Women -- 1. Domesticating the Market, Marketing the Domestic -- 2. Feeding, Drinking, and Eating: Market Women Restructuring Gender -- 3. Constructing Moral Reputation: The Case of Mama Njau -- 4. From Captured...

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural conservation. Today, a place on the World Heritage List is much sought after for tourism promotion, development funding, and national prestige. Presenting case studies from across the globe,...

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...

Self-sufficiency of the house is practiced in many parts of the world but ignored in economic theory, just as socialist collectivization is assumed to have brought household self-sufficiency to an end. The ideals of self-sufficiency, however, continue to shape economic activity in a wide range...

This is an extraordinary book, huge in every way, one man's personal synthesis of the world we live in, as seen through his own experience of Norway's largest business corporation and much much more. The book and the author have a lot going for them. There are few in-depth anthropological...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Theoretical Narrative Approach to Organizational Change Studies -- 3 Making Sense of Everyday Innovation at a Clinical Ward Through Narratives of Visitation Routines -- 4 A...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Neoliberal Transformation of Mexico -- 2. Theorizing Neoliberalism -- 3. Neoliberalism and the Transnational Activity of the State -- 4. Tracing the Trail of Table Grapes -- 5. Maize and Indigenous Communities of Oaxaca -- 6. Disjuncture between Economic...