Caroline Humphrey / Stephen Hugh-Jones (eds.)

Barter, Exchange and Value

An Anthropological Approach
Herausgeber: Humphrey, Caroline; Hugh-Jones, Stephen

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Produktbeschreibung

This novel treatment of barter represents an original and topical addition to the literature on economic anthropology. It aims to show that barter is not just and inefficient means of exchange, or mere haggling, but is a mode of exchange with its own social characteristics, occupying a specific moral space.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9780521406826
• ISBN-10: 052140682X
• Artikelnr.: 21629838

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Barter, exchange and value Caroline Humphrey and Stephen
Hugh-Jones; 2. Politicised values: the cultural dynamics of peripheral
exchange Nicholas Thomas; 3. Yesterday's luxuries, tomorrow's necessities:
business and barter in northwest Amazonia Stephen Hugh-Jones; 4. Some notes
on the economics of barter, money and credit Luca Anderlini and Hamid
Sabourian; 5. Fair dealing, just rewards: the ethics of barter in
North-East Nepal; 6. Inter-tribal commodity barter and productivie
gift-exchange in old Melanesia Alfred Gell; 7. Qualified value: the
perspective of gift exchange Marilyn Strathern.