| Gifts and Commodities Second Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Gregory, C. a. (Author), Strathern, Marilyn (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0990505014 ISBN-13: 9780990505013 Publisher: Hau OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Business & Economics | Economic Conditions |
| Dewey: 330.995 |
| LCCN: 2014953483 |
| Series: Hau - Classics in Ethnographic Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (1.10 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Christopher A. Gregory's Gifts and Commodities is one of the undisputed classics of economic anthropology. On its publication in 1982, it spurred intense, ongoing debates about gifts and gifting, value, exchange, and the place of political economy in anthropology. Gifts and Commodities is, at once, a critique of neoclassical economics and development theory, a critical history of colonial Papua New Guinea, and a comparative ethnography of exchange in Melanesian societies. This new edition includes a foreword by anthropologist Marilyn Strathern and a new preface by the author that discusses the ongoing response to the book and the debates it has engendered, debates that have become more salient in our evermore neoliberal and globalized era. |
Contributor Bio(s): Strathern, Marilyn: - Marilyn Strathern is emeritus professor of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of many books, including Women in Between, The Gender of the Gift, and Kinship, Law, and the Unexpected. Gregory, C. a.: - C. A. Gregory teaches anthropology at the Australian National University and the University of Manchester. He is the author of Observing the Economy, Savage Money: The Anthropology and Politics of Commodity Exchange, and Lachmi Jagar: Gurumai Sukdai's Story of the Bastar Rice Goddess. |