Explorations in Economic Anthropology: Key Issues and Critical Reflections

Explorations in Economic Anthropology -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Reconsidering (Post)Socialist Spaces -- Chapter 1. Civilizations and Economies -- Chapter 2. From Halecki to Hann -- Chapter 3. Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire, or Modernization Forever? -- Chapter 4. Something to Be Nostalgic about? -- Chapter 5. Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone -- Chapter 6. Making a Reality of Other People's Fictions -- Chapter 7. Resilience and Surveillance in Hann's Eurasia -- Part II. Economic Anthropology in a Changing World -- Chapter 8. Hijra, Port and Market -- Chapter 9. From Social Norms to Legal Norms -- Chapter 10. The Moral Economy of Anthropological Scholarship -- Chapter 11. Some Thoughts on Embeddedness, Value and the Moral Dimension in the Work of Chris Hann -- Chapter 12. Property, Resources and Gauging Social Change -- Chapter 13. Birth, Property and the Male Descendant -- Chapter 14. What Has Happened to Turkish Tea? -- Part III. Economies of the Sacred and Secular -- Chapter 15. Economy Is a Ritua -- Chapter 16. The Rice, the Rice Goddess and the Sickle -- Chapter 17. The Dharma and the Dime -- Chapter 18. Stealing Goddesses -- Chapter 19. Dalits and the Market -- Chapter 20. Polanyi Goes to Mauritius -- Publications by Chris Hann -- Index.

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