Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Open Anthropology Cooperative was a social networking site for anthropologists founded by Keith Hart in June 2009 on the Ning. It acquired 8,000 members worldwide in its first decade and opened on Facebook, making a total membership of 22,000 members drawn from professional academics, postgraduates, undergraduates and amateur anthropologists.
Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams is a 2002 book-length synthesis of cultural, economic, and political theories of value, written by anthropologist David Graeber and published by Palgrave. A Spanish translation is slated for release in October 2018. [1]
Economic Anthropology is the journal of the Society for Economic Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). [1] The journal was founded in 2014 with an annual themed issue and became biannual in 2016. [2] The current editor-in-chief is Brandon D. Lundy, Professor of Anthropology at Kennesaw State University.
Economic anthropology is a field that attempts to explain human economic behavior in its widest historic, geographic and cultural scope. It is an amalgamation of economics and anthropology . It is practiced by anthropologists and has a complex relationship with the discipline of economics, of which it is highly critical. [ 1 ]
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Economic anthropology is included in the JEL classification codes as JEL: Z1
Political economy in anthropology is the application of the theories and methods of historical materialism to the traditional concerns of anthropology, including but not limited to non-capitalist societies. Political economy introduced questions of history and colonialism to ahistorical anthropological theories of social structure and culture.
The Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) is a group of anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, geographers and other scholars interested in the connections between economics and social life. Its members take a variety of approaches to economics: some have a substantivist perspective, while others are interested in the new institutional ...
Cannibals and Kings (1977, ISBN 0-394-40765-2) is a book written by American anthropologist Marvin Harris. [1] The book presents a systematic discussion of ideas about the reasons for a culture making a transition by stages from egalitarian hunter-gatherer to hierarchically based states as population density increases.