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Economic Anthropology Manual English definition 2005 edition

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Description: Those who work in economic anthropology are aware of the importance of the
economy in public thought and debate. In retrospect, Adam Smith might well
have titled his book The health of nations, for in our day, if not in his, it seems
that the health of a country is defined by its wealth, just as the final judgement
of an activity is its bottom line, how it gains or loses money. And overweening
in our day is economics, whether the formal, theoretical economics of scholars
like Gary Becker, the more applied economics of bodies like the Federal
Reserve Board or the Bank of England, or the less rigorous economics of
public thought and debate.
This state of affairs is likely both to exhilarate and to distress
anthropologists who work on economy. It exhilarates because it points out the
importance of what they study, which is, after all, economic life. It is likely to
distress because the economic life that they see in their research often looks so
different from the world construed by those

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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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