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. |
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... Bastar District : two subdistricts ( tahsils ) compared 97 128 IV.2 Minipur village : classification of households by size of rice - surplus ( deficit ) 132 IV.3 Minipur village : rice - surplus households 135 IV.4 Minipur village ...
... Bastar District : two subdistricts ( tahsils ) compared 97 128 IV.2 Minipur village : classification of households by size of rice - surplus ( deficit ) 132 IV.3 Minipur village : rice - surplus households 135 IV.4 Minipur village ...
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... Bastar District , India . I first went there in 1981 for a few weeks and returned a year later for an extended fieldtrip as part of Alfred's project on rural marketing in Bastar . This research was funded by the then SSRC ( Social ...
... Bastar District , India . I first went there in 1981 for a few weeks and returned a year later for an extended fieldtrip as part of Alfred's project on rural marketing in Bastar . This research was funded by the then SSRC ( Social ...
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... ( Bastar District ) and includes a comparative analysis of shell money use in India , readers expecting to find a conventional anthropological study of ' primitive money ' will be disappointed . I have chosen the title Savage Money to ...
... ( Bastar District ) and includes a comparative analysis of shell money use in India , readers expecting to find a conventional anthropological study of ' primitive money ' will be disappointed . I have chosen the title Savage Money to ...
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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 |
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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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