The economics of ecology, exchange, and adaptation : anthropological explorations / edited by Donald C. Wood, Department of Medical Education, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.

Sponsored by the AAA Section Society for Economic Anthropology.

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Front Cover; The Economics of Ecology, Exchange, and Adaptation: Anthropological Explorations; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Editorial Advisory Board; Introduction: Anthropological Explorations of Incongruous Perspectives in the Economics of Ecology, Exchange, and Adaptation; References; Part I: Climate, Environment, and Conservation; Regulating the Ogallala: Paradox and Ambiguity in Western Kansas; Introduction; Methods; The Ogallala: Economic, Environmental, and Social Significance; The Corn Economy; The State Steps in; Regulatory Infrastructure; Regulatory Practice.

Views from the FarmDiscussion: Paradox and Ambiguity; The Embedded State; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Contested Understandings of Sustainability and Climate Issues in Southern Costa Rica; Setting and Methodology; Deforestation and Climate Change: Shifting Patterns of Rain and Warmth; Erosion and Land Degradation; Conclusions; References; Climate Variability in West Africa: A Case Study in Vulnerability and Adaptation on the Northern Central Plateau, Burkina Faso; Introduction; Methods and Data; Sahelian Desiccation; Vulnerability to Climate Variability.

Agricultural Adaptations to Climate VariabilityConclusion; References; Contested Affluence: Cultural Politics of Pashmina Wealth and Wildlife Conservation in Ladakh; Introduction; Pre-1962; Post-1962; Situating Wildlife Conservation Discourse; An Imagined Ecological Balance; Resource Access, Power and Cultural Politics; Contested Affluence; Access to Pastures; Cooptation and Institutional Bricolage; Access to Labour; Moral Economy of Khimse and Cooperative to Commercial Labour Exchange; Access to Market; State Dependency, Fixed Market Locations and Border Sensitivities; Conclusions; Notes.

AcknowledgementsReferences; Part II: Negotiating the Social and the Economic in Exchange Relations; Maximizing Social Proximity in Market Relations: The Networks of Nigerian Immigrant Business Owners in New York City; Immigrant Business Owner Vulnerability; Social Networks and Immigrant Business Owners; Methods; The Role of Trust, Obligations, and Social Signaling in Network Building; Suppliers; Employees; Customers; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; The Hau of the Theft: Reciprocity, Reputation and the Koh-i-Noor Diamond; Introduction; Crown Jewels.

The Koh-i-noor and its HistoryThe History; The Gift, Genealogies of Exchange, and Prestige; Conclusion; Notes; References; The Space between Community and Self-Interest: Conflict and the Experience of Exchange in Heroin Markets; The Problem; Caveats and Orientations; Methods and Setting; Exchange; The Economic Heroin Trade; The Social Heroin Trade; Trust and Trading "Fairly"; Mentored Reciprocity; Conflict Processes; Buyer-Broker Conflict; Buyer-Dealer Conflict; Implications; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Suburban Drug Dealing: A Case Study in Ambivalent Economics.

This book consists of three sections. The first, concentrating on ecology, further explores the theme of climate change. The second section focuses on exchange transactions and relations in a variety of situations and settings. Finally, papers in the third section share a concern with individual and group adaptations to certain conditions of life.

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