Malinowski s Argonauts of the Western Pacific was a major contribution to anthropological theory ...

This volume brings social and cultural anthropologists into dialogue with historical sociology...

Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume th...

Between kinship ties on the one hand and the state on the other, human beings experience a divers...

Between kinship ties on the one hand and the state on the other, human beings experience a divers...

Primarily on the basis of ethnographic case-studies from around the world, this volume links inve...

Malinowski s Argonauts of the Western Pacific was a major contribution to anthropological theory ...

Karl Polanyi''s 1944 book, The Great Transformation, offered a radical critique of how the market...

According to accepted wisdom, rational practices and ritual action are opposed. Rituals drain wea...

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of northwest China, where the authors of this book have wor...

This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leadi...