The Anthropology of Economy: Community, Market, and CultureISBN: 978-0-631-22567-6
Paperback
198 pages
October 2001, Wiley-Blackwell
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"A stimulating rethinking of anthropology's contribution to our
understanding of economics. Clear and original, this highly
readable book will disturb many people's habits of thought as well
as expand & enrich them. In it, Gudeman shows how the economy
is embedded in human life and society, and how it builds on
community and the commons, as much as on individuality and the
market. A signal contribution." Fredrik Barth, University of
Oslo and Boston University
"Given the clarity of the prose and the accessibility of the
ideas, this book would make for an excellent textbook for an
economic anthropology class. Indeed, it is hard to think of a
textbook that compares. But the book is much more than this. It is
clearly intended as a liberating framework within which
anthropologists and fieldworkers can rethink economic issues in a
much broader way." The Australian Journal of
Anthropology
"This is an important work, synthesizing a substantial body of anthropological and economic thought into a coherent whole." James G. Carrier, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute