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This volume consists of three sections connected by the elucidation
of differences in perspective between people and polities. The
first, concentrating on ecology, serves in part to further explore
the theme of climate change. It looks into aquifer usage and
ecology in the Midwestern United States, farming and climate shifts
in Costa Rica and in Burkina Faso, and goat herding and
conservation issues in the Himalayas. The second section focuses on
exchange transactions and relations in a variety of situations and
settings: among Nigerian immigrant business owners in New York
City, along the path of the famous Koh-i-noor Diamond from India to
the Tower of London, and between dealers and buyers in illegal
narcotics markets in the Eastern, Midwestern, and Pacific
Northwestern USA. Finally, papers in the third section share a
concern with individual and group adaptations to certain conditions
of life. Offered are investigations into relations between stock
brokers and professional investors in Malaysia, attempts to foster
innovation in Western Japan, women's farming strategies and
autonomy in Western Kenya, and alternative healing decisions and
practices in Brazil.
Volume 41 of Research in Economic Anthropology explores a wide
range of topics of interest to economic anthropology. The opening
paper presents a novel approach to anthropological-economic
infrastructural research in England, specifically London's Thames
Tideway Tunnel. The volume's first section consists of four papers
that are tied together by two common threads: the roles of money in
social ties between people, and moral concerns regarding these and
other roles and uses of money in society. The section covers
commercial surrogate mothers in Russia, social welfare provision in
Pakistan, the management of a communal fund within a school alumni
association in South Korea, and a credit scheme's impact on women
in Nigeria. Part two focuses on two basic necessities of human
life-food and clothing - examining a New Zealand food security
initiative that rescues "waste" food, modern transformations of a
pre-owned clothing market in Hamburg, Germany, and Muslim fashion
retail business in the same country's capital city, Berlin.
Finally, the volume closes with a third section that fixes an
anthropological lens on contemporary developments in Latin America,
analyzing the larger fair trade movement and its particular
manifestations and implications in Oaxaca, Mexico, the
cost-effectiveness of the reintegration of ex-combatants in
Colombia, and patron-client relations in Brazil and how these have
been politically perceived and presented by domestic and foreign
intellectuals and academics, respectively.
This volume of Research in Economic Anthropology, which presents
ten peer-reviewed anthropological papers, celebrates the 40th
anniversary of the series by taking a close look at human
vulnerability: the ways in which people attempt to cope with it and
barriers to successfully overcoming it. The two leading articles
both take up the issue of microfinance; Daniel Murphy examines the
influences of this in the lives of pastoralists in Mongolia, and
Megan Hinrichsen explores related processes among vendors in Quito,
Ecuador. Next, Elena Sischarenco looks at ways of dealing with
vulnerability in the northern Italian construction industry. Sarah
Lyon investigates smallholders' experiences with, and adaptations
to, the coffee rust disaster in Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as the
functions of fair trade organizations. Rounding out the first half
of the volume is Raja Swamy's analysis of post-tsunami
reconstruction in Tamil Nadu, India. The second half starts with
Janneke Verheijen's investigation of women's survival strategies in
rural Malawi, southeast Africa, and Lai Wo's study of intimate
relationships and transactions between Western men and Southeast
Asian women in Hong Kong. Courtney Lewis explores political and
economic sovereignty among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in
North Carolina, USA. Finally, the volume turns to the past with
Kari Henquinet's examination of the evolution of American
faith-based overseas development aid projects in the 20th century,
and with Serge Svizzero's and Clement Tisdell's analysis of Early
Bronze Age desert kite use for trapping gazelles in parts of
Southwest Asia. Ultimately, it is hoped that this and other
scholarly investigations into human vulnerability will lead to
better preventive and curative measures, for an imperfect world.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny that human activity
is a factor in global climate change. This special volume of REA
facilitates readers to better understand the ways in which people
around the world have adapted (or failed to adapt) culturally to
changing economic conditions caused by climate change. It focuses
on specific situations in particular locations, showcasing (and
confirming) the strength and value of intensive ethnographic or
archaeological "investigation. The authors discuss: 1) How has
climate change affected production, distribution, or consumption at
the local level? 2) Are environmental conservation and economic
development mutually exclusive? 3) What roles can public and
private institutions play in successful adaptation? 4) What kinds
of parallels can be drawn between current social situations and
those in the past with regards to climate change?
This thirty fourth volume in the REA series contains fourteen
chapters by a variety of researchers touching on a wide range of
topics in economic anthropology and covering a vast geographical
area. The chapters are divided into four sections: one focusing on
commodities and their social meanings and values, one organized
around the anthropological investigation of business systems and
practices, one concentrating on the economic importance of
productive land in culture and society, and finally one that
showcases a variety of new research on the economic anthropology of
Latin America. Geographic areas featured in the volume include
Africa (Kenya and Mauritius), Europe (Britain, Germany, and
Romania), North America (Mexico and Guatemala), South America
(Brazil), East Asia (Japan), and Western Asia (Jordan). Standing
apart from these four sections is a special feature essay by noted
anthropologist Sidney Greenfield that calls for a reevaluation of
the global capitalist system as it stands today.
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Dimensions of Ritual Economy (Paperback, New)
Patricia Ann McAnany; Series edited by Donald C. Wood; Volume editing by Patricia A. McAnany, E. Christian Wells; Series edited by John A. Bishop
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Increasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation
to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values
and beliefs as motivational factors. Conversely, the economic
underpinnings of ritual practice are under-theorized and therefore
not accessible to economists working on synthetic theories of human
choice. This book addresses the problem by bringing together
anthropologists with diverse backgrounds in the study of religion
and economy to forge an analytical vocabulary that constitutes the
building blocks of a theory of ritual economythe process of
provisioning and consuming that materializes and substantiates
worldview for managing meanings and shaping interpretations. The
chapters in Part I explore how values and beliefs structure the
dual processes of provisioning and consuming. Contributions to Part
II consider how ritual and economic processes interlink to
materialize and substantiate worldview. Chapters in Part III
examine how people and institutions craft and assert worldview
through ritual and economic action to manage meaning and shape
interpretation. In Part IV, Jeremy Sabloff outlines the road ahead
for developing the theory of ritual economy. By focusing on the
intersection of cosmology and material transfers, the contributors
push economic theory towards a more socially informed perspective.
Volume 32 of REA continues the series' on-going presentation of new
and highly engaging anthropological research. Chapters contained
herein reflect the diverse range of broad based and localized
topics economic anthropologists currently explore from various
critical perspectives. Spanning deep history and present day
economic processes, the contributions to this volume are subdivided
into three major thematic sections. Part I addresses questions of
how the political economy is articulated at the macro- and
micro-level through processes of consumption, production,
gift-giving, and evolution. The essays of Part II assume a more
critical stance as outcomes of neoliberalism are considered from
both a gendered and institutional perspective. Finally, the papers
of Part III shift focus to the prehistoric economies of Latin
America.
In much of the world's economy, production, exchange and
consumption are regulated by the Market, which is widely believed
to be based on economic rationality and driven by a desire to
consume. But there are different views of how the Market operates,
or ought to operate. This collection of essays discusses a series
of alternative perspectives - manifested in ethical movements,
alternative consumer behaviour, and social corporate responsibility
initiatives - that seek to reveal the 'hidden hands' of power,
inequality and morality that shape Market exchange. Against the
impersonality of the Market, we find initiatives, such as local
food movements, that seek to re-embed commodity exchange in social
relationships. Against the idea of the open economy, we find
initiatives that seek to counter the ever-widening gap between
producers and consumers. Against increased extraction from less
powerful economic actors, we find ethical movements, such as Fair
Trade, that work to return a fair share of the price to producers
and workers. And, against the unfettered Market, we encounter a
move to re-regulate trade and protect those located in the most
vulnerable market positions. The volume engages with a range of
alternative ethical perspectives and the initiatives to which they
give rise. Twelve essays - all based on first-hand ethnographic
studies of alternative trade movements, corporate social
initiatives and consumer behaviour - provide the groundwork for
wide-ranging theoretical engagement and comparative analysis. The
case studies cover a range of places, commodities and initiatives,
including Fair Trade and organic production activism in Hungary,
CSR discourses in South Africa and Europe, Fair Trade coffee in
Costa Rica and handicrafts made in Indonesia. The essays contribute
to a series of current debates within the social sciences about
what drives alternative Market engagements, how they are understood
and represented by different actors, and what makes their outcomes
often ambivalent or contradictory. They address disjunctions
between discourses and practices, and internal inconsistencies
within ethical movements and corporate initiatives. The volume as a
whole engages with questions about morality and the economy, the
creation and circulation of value, and, ultimately, the possibility
of making alternatives work. In doing so, the contributors reveal
the many fields of power at work within the Market as well as
within the movements advocating more ethical economic
relationships. The volume will be of particular interest to social
scientists, business and management studies scholars, and a range
of practitioners.
"The Economics of Religion" explores the new paradigms of
"religious economics" and "economies of religion" under the scope
of transdisciplinary and international perspectives. It examines
and appraises some of the recent theoretical developments and
methodological innovations in religious and social sciences. This
volume offers the chance to extend the analysis of religious
behaviours by means of conceptual and methodological models of
economics. It goes far beyond the classical "economy and religion"
debate, and suggests not only theoretical but also epistemological
changes in the study of religion: individual rationality and
rational choice, market theory, demand and supply theory, branding
and commodification of religion, believers' "consumer" habits,
churches' competitive strategies, for example. Of course, these are
not exempt from criticism, which this volume also addresses. These
detailed and localized case-studies range from experimental to
ethnographic methods, psychological to cultural aspects of
believing and practising cults in the scope of economics of
religion. Geographical areas covered include Nigeria, Bolivia,
Italy, Mexico, France, Korea, Nepal and Tonga.
Following the Second World War, a massive land reclamation project
to boost Japan's rice production capacity led to the transformation
of the shallow lagoon of Hachirogata in Akita Prefecture into a
seventeen-thousand-hectare expanse of farmland. In 1964, the
village of Ogata-mura was founded on the empoldered land inside the
lagoon and nearly six hundred pioneers from across the country were
brought to settle there. The village was to be a model of a new
breed of highly mechanized, efficient rice agriculture; however,
the village's purpose was jeopardized when the demand for rice
fell, and the goal of creating an egalitarian farming community was
threatened as individual entrepreneurialism took root and as the
settlers became divided into political factions that to this day
continue to struggle for control of the village. Based on seventeen
years of research, this book explores the process of Ogatamura's
development from the planning stages to the present. An intensive
ethnographic study of the relationship between land reclamation,
agriculture, and politics in regional Japan, it traces the internal
social effects of the village's economic transformations while
addressing the implications of national policy at the municipal and
regional levels.
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Dimensions of Ritual Economy (Hardcover, New)
Patricia Ann McAnany; Series edited by Donald C. Wood; Volume editing by Patricia A. McAnany, E. Christian Wells; Series edited by John A. Bishop
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Increasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation
to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values
and beliefs as motivational factors. Conversely, the economic
underpinnings of ritual practice are under-theorized and therefore
not accessible to economists working on synthetic theories of human
choice. This book addresses the problem by bringing together
anthropologists with diverse backgrounds in the study of religion
and economy to forge an analytical vocabulary that constitutes the
building blocks of a theory of ritual economy-the process of
provisioning and consuming that materializes and substantiates
worldview for managing meanings and shaping interpretations. The
chapters in Part I explore how values and beliefs structure the
dual processes of provisioning and consuming. Contributions to Part
II consider how ritual and economic processes interlink to
materialize and substantiate worldview. Chapters in Part III
examine how people and institutions craft and assert worldview
through ritual and economic action to manage meaning and shape
interpretation. In Part IV, Jeremy Sabloff outlines the road ahead
for developing the theory of ritual economy. By focusing on the
intersection of cosmology and material transfers, the contributors
push economic theory towards a more socially informed perspective.
Volume 37 of REA features eleven original articles organized in
four different sections, each focusing on a specific, popular and
significant theme in economic anthropology: production, exchange,
vending, and tourism. The first section investigates the brewing
(and selling) of homemade beer among Maragoli women in western
Kenya, continuity and change in small-scale family farming in a
rural part of Costa Rica, and theoretical models of the transitions
to farming that marked the Neolithic Revolution. The second
section, on exchange, opens with another archaeological
examination-of relationships between long-distance exchange and the
centralization of political power in Pre-Columbian America. This
section also explores adaptations of the Ten Thousand Villages fair
trade organization following the recent global recession, exchanges
and "productive leisure" at North Market in Columbus, Ohio, and
social values in flux over problems relating to exchange amidst
conditions of scarcity in the Solomon Islands. The third section
investigates the plight and adaptations of vendors in a southern
Chinese city and on a Mexican beach, drawing attention to the
effects of both national government policies and international
trade agreements on their lives. The volume closes with a section
that considers important and timely issues in tourism-the role of
debt in commission-based relationships between showroom owners and
tour guides in Agra, India, and risk, resilience, health, and
government policy in Jamaica's sex tourism industry.
Volume 40 of Research in Economic Anthropology explores current
issues in national and international policy, cost and debt,
business and capitalism, and economic theory and behavior
specifically pertaining to Brazil. The underlying theme running
through the collection is the steady encroachment of neoliberalism
into economic policy and practice, and the impact this has had on
everyday ways of life. In Part I, Raja Swamy explores post-disaster
relocation and livelihood issues in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu,
India, Anthony Rausch and Junichiro Koji investigate Japan's
Hometown Tax Donation Program, and Emma Gilberthorpe argues for
development plans that incorporate indigenous people's needs and
worldviews. In Part II, Vassily Pigounides empirically analyzes a
revenue management system originating in France, Irene Sabate
Muriel looks at the moral economy of mortgage lending and economic
reasoning during the housing bubble that rocked Spain when it burst
in 2007, and Mathias Krabbe explores debt among US college
students. In Part III, Ieva Snikersproge examines a French worker
cooperative ice cream venture, Andres Gramajo quantitively measures
the strength of capitalist thought among business owners in Latin
America, and Michal Stein and John Vertovec explore individual
action in the transitional economy in Havana's tourist-oriented
dance instruction world. In Part IV, Sidney Greenfield theorizes on
two coexisting but disjunct patterns of behavior in Brazil, which
give rise to tension, corruption allegations, and public scandals,
and Guilherme Falleiros analyzes the structural shifts between
global capitalism and indigenous ways of life in the same country.
Following the Second World War, a massive land reclamation
project to boost Japan's rice production capacity led to the
transformation of the shallow lagoon of Hachirogata in Akita
Prefecture into a seventeen-thousand-hectare expanse of farmland.
In 1964, the village of Ogata-mura was founded on the empoldered
land inside the lagoon and nearly six hundred pioneers from across
the country were brought to settle there. The village was to be a
model of a new breed of highly mechanized, efficient rice
agriculture; however, the village's purpose was jeopardized when
the demand for rice fell, and the goal of creating an egalitarian
farming community was threatened as individual entrepreneurialism
took root and as the settlers became divided into political
factions that to this day continue to struggle for control of the
village. Based on seventeen years of research, this book explores
the process of Ogatamura's development from the planning stages to
the present. An intensive ethnographic study of the relationship
between land reclamation, agriculture, and politics in regional
Japan, it traces the internal social effects of the village's
economic transformations while addressing the implications of
national policy at the municipal and regional levels.
Donald C. Wood is an Associate Professor at Akita University,
where he has worked since earning a PhD in cultural anthropology at
the University of Tokyo in 2004. He is currently editor of the
Research in Economic Anthropology book series.
This 29th volume in the "Research in Economic Anthropology" series
explores economic development, integration, and morality in
economic transactions in Asia and the Americas through 14 original
chapters based on ethnographic evidence collected by the authors.
Under development, chapters look at, amongst others, underground
gambling behavior in China in light of that country's current
economic boom, recent retail store expansion and local
socioeconomic effects in rural Mexico, and also women's economic
activities as part of the household economy in Oaxaca, Mexico. As
for economic integration, authors investigate monetization in the
historical and archaeological records of the Angkorian Empire,
transnational economic links between coffee producers in Costa Rica
and Panama and concurrent socio-economic effects at the production
sites. Finally, under the moral, chapters examine the culture of
restaurant tipping in North America, the pre-school education
market in northern Japan against a backdrop of scarcity of
children, narrative and social pressure in a North American market
environment, and the role of social capital in gender-specific
credit association membership in Puebla, Mexico.
In much of the world's economy, production, exchange and
consumption are regulated by the Market, which is widely believed
to be based on economic rationality and driven by a desire to
consume. But there are different views of how the Market operates,
or ought to operate. This collection of essays discusses a series
of alternative perspectives - manifested in ethical movements,
alternative consumer behaviour, and social corporate responsibility
initiatives - that seek to reveal the 'hidden hands' of power,
inequality and morality that shape Market exchange. Against the
impersonality of the Market, we find initiatives, such as local
food movements, that seek to re-embed commodity exchange in social
relationships. Against the idea of the open economy, we find
initiatives that seek to counter the ever-widening gap between
producers and consumers. Against increased extraction from less
powerful economic actors, we find ethical movements, such as Fair
Trade, that work to return a fair share of the price to producers
and workers. And, against the unfettered Market, we encounter a
move to re-regulate trade and protect those located in the most
vulnerable market positions. The volume engages with a range of
alternative ethical perspectives and the initiatives to which they
give rise. Twelve essays - all based on first-hand ethnographic
studies of alternative trade movements, corporate social
initiatives and consumer behaviour - provide the groundwork for
wide-ranging theoretical engagement and comparative analysis. The
case studies cover a range of places, commodities and initiatives,
including Fair Trade and organic production activism in Hungary,
CSR discourses in South Africa and Europe, Fair Trade coffee in
Costa Rica and handicrafts made in Indonesia. The essays contribute
to a series of current debates within the social sciences about
what drives alternative Market engagements, how they are understood
and represented by different actors, and what makes their outcomes
often ambivalent or contradictory. They address disjunctions
between discourses and practices, and internal inconsistencies
within ethical movements and corporate initiatives. The volume as a
whole engages with questions about morality and the economy, the
creation and circulation of value, and, ultimately, the possibility
of making alternatives work. In doing so, the contributors reveal
the many fields of power at work within the Market as well as
within the movements advocating more ethical economic
relationships. The volume will be of particular interest to social
scientists, business and management studies scholars, and a range
of practitioners.
This volume contains 14 original chapters focusing on various
aspects of economic organization and behaviour, mostly based on
empirical fieldwork conducted by the authors themselves. It is a
well-balanced collection of chapters on economic issues studied
anthropologically, not only in its geographical and theoretical
focus but also in showcasing work by established and emerging
researchers. "Chapters on Africa" take a close look at urban food
provisioning in Cameroon and an investigation into entrepreneurial
activities in the rapidly-changing economy of Cairo. Other chapters
examine places and cultures in Central Asia - property rights and
state power in Kazakhstan, and animal markets in Kashgar, Western
China. The buying and selling activities of ethnic groups within
larger societies such as Latin Americans in the USA and Gabor Roma
in Romania are highlighted. Concerning North America are chapters
on the trans-Atlantic (and global) art market, and on oil drilling
in Canada, while in Latin America, income disparities and
inequalities in Brazil, development in Colombia, and kin-like
compadrazgo networks in Mexico are analyzed. Historical Western
Europe and pre-historical Ecuador are also covered.
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