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The Anthropology of Economy: Community, Market, and Culture

ISBN: 978-0-631-22567-6
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198 pages
October 2001, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Using an anthropological perspective, offers a new comparative model of economy.


  • Demonstrates how all economies are made up of both markets & communal life.


  • Using 60-70 examples from historical and contemporary cross-cultural contexts, shows how financial profit and capital are dependent on social relationships.

  • Argues that reciprocity is the result of community-not its foundation.

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