TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wood,Donald C.
TI  - The economics of ecology, exchange, and adaptation: anthropological explorations 
T2  - Research in economic anthropology
SN  - 9781786352279
AV  - GN448 
U1  - 306.3 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Bingley, UK
PB  - Emerald Books
KW  - Economic anthropology
KW  - Anthropologie économique
KW  - Environmental economics
KW  - bicssc
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Sponsored by the AAA Section Society for Economic Anthropology; Includes bibliographical references; 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
N2  - 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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