Savage MoneyThis volume is not simply another general theory of world system. It is a theoretically and ethnographically informed collection of essays which opens up new questions through an examination of concrete cases, covering global and local questions of political economy. |
Contents
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Beyond Gifts and Commodities | 41 |
Land as the Supreme Good | 71 |
Production of Commodities by Means of Goods | 119 |
Mercantile Kinship | 163 |
Usury Interest and Usance | 211 |
Domesticated Money | 233 |
Savage Money | 265 |
Toward a Radical Humanist Anthropology | 297 |
Bibliography | 313 |
Index | 327 |
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Savage Money: The Anthropology and Politics of Commodity Exchange Chris A. Gregory Limited preview - 1997 |
Savage Money: The Anthropology and Politics of Commodity Exchange Chris A. Gregory Limited preview - 1997 |
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