Primitive and Peasant Economic Systems

Primitive and Peasant Economic Systems
Author: Manning Nash
Publisher: San Francisco : Chandler Publishing Company
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1966
Genre: Developing countries
ISBN:

Study of the social and cultural anthropology of peasant farmer economic systems - comprises sections on (1) the scope of economic anthropology, (2) primitive and peasant economies, (3) the nonmonetary economy, (4) peasants and marketing, (5) economic structures, (6) the process of economic, social and cultural change, and (7) economic development and modernisation. Bibliography pp. 153 to 161.

Economic Anthropology Devel

Economic Anthropology Devel
Author: George Dalton
Publisher: New York : Basic Books
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1971-05-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Collection of essays on the scope and research methods of the social and cultural anthropology of economic development and modernization (economic anthropology) - presents the theoretical framework of socio-economic analysis of tribal peoples and peasant (rural worker) economic systems, covers traditional production and markets in Africa, primitive monetary systems, the role of kinship and religion, and considers social change and cultural change in village communitys. Bibliography pp. 363 to 375, references and statistical tables.

Themes in Economic Anthropology

Themes in Economic Anthropology
Author: Raymond Firth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136537732

The main focus of the volume - the processes of choice and decision-making in different economic systems - offers exceptional scope for the convergence of economic and anthropological perspectives. It concentrates on transactions that both express and influence social relationships and values. Covering a wide geographic area there are specific studies on societies in Equatorial Africa, Colombia, South India and the Balkans. First published in 1967.

Primitive Polynesian Economy

Primitive Polynesian Economy
Author: Raymond Firth
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2004
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780415330176

A great classic of British anthropology, Primitive Polynesian Economy is structured as follows: · Problems of Primitive Economics · Food and Population in Tikopia · Knowledge, Technique and Economic Lore · The Labour Situation · Ritual in Productive Activity · Economic Functions of the Chiefs · Property and Capital in Production · Principles of Distribution and Payment · Exchange and Value · Characteristics of a Primitive Economy First published in 1939.

Stone Age Economics

Stone Age Economics
Author: Marshall Sahlins
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2004
Genre: Economic anthropology
ISBN: 0415330076

This book addresses a central problem of anthropology: the nature and appropriate analysis of economic life. It consists of a set of detailed and closely related studies of tribal economies: of domestic production for livelihood, and of the submission of domestic production to the material and political demands of society at large. Originally published in 1974.