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Drawing upon their joint fieldwork, the authors cast this book as a
conversation involving themselves, a Colombian rural people, and
the writings of past economists. In their view, the material
practices of the rural folk constitute a house model of the
economy, and the Colombian voices provide a window on prior
European fold conversations about the house. The house and the
corporation have been the principal modes of material organization
in Western life: the former is older, but the latter now
predominates. The authors suggest, through use of the Colombian
conversations, that textualists of the past transformed and
inscribed similar folk voices for their emerging theories of the
corporation and the market. They argue that economic knowledge is
not simply the product of a scientific community but is often
appropriated from folk practices. By situating the knowledge gained
from fieldwork within their own traditions, and by using that
knowledge to reflect upon the origins of contemporary wisdom, the
book implicates the modern-day ethnographer, rural folk, and
economist as participants in a long conversation.
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