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Economic Anthropology Manual English definition 2005 edition

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Description: Political economy, culture and the information age
The most recent ‘grand narrative’ to provide a framework for explaining the
political economy of the modern world is that of Castells in his three-volume
work, The information age(1996, 1997, 1999). This work traces the impact of
information technology on the world economy and social structure. It brings
together a number of Castells’s earlier interests, including the role of the state
in consumption (compare Castells 1977), social movements (Castells 1983)
and the relationship between information technology and urban development
(Castells 1989; Castells and Hall 1994). It also shows how the new technology
is leading to a process of polarisation between the rich and the poor, as well as
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to the erosion of the nation-state and the internationalisation of organised
crime. A large part of the third volume deals with regional polarisation
between a ‘fourth world’, consisting of much

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A handbook of economic anthropology 584 and modernisation theory 26–7 Yang, M. 399, 400 and modes of production 53 Yemen 519–20 networks 33 Yngstrom, I. 330, 331–2 origins 30–32 significance 38–9 Zaloom, Caitlin 186–7 world-system concept 32–3 world system origins 30–32 Zambia 358, 476, 500 Zelizer, V. 460–461 world-system typology 33–4 Zonabend, F. 151–3 World Trade Organization (WTO) Yaitepec, Oaxaca 205–6 475 Zweig, M. 130


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