Production, consumption, business and the economy : structural ideals and moral realities / edited by Donald C. Wood ; contributors Peter Berta [and fourteen others].

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

The English enlightenment and "the economy" : how some men with a vision created the modern world and its problems / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Proprietary contest, business ethics and conflict management : a multi-sited commodity ethnography / Péter Berta -- Three shades of embeddedness : state capitalism as the informal economy, emic notions of the anti-market and counterfeit garments in the Mauritian export processing zone / Patrick Neveling -- Japanese "merchants of culture" : the publishing business in Japan / Brian Moeran -- "Is it really islamic?" Evaluating the "Islam" in Islamic banking in Amman, Jordan / Sarah A. Tobin -- Financialization and financial labour : ethnographies of finance and "ethnographic reflections" on British retail stockbroking / Alexander Parkinson -- BMW : mastering the crises with "new efficiency?" / Ludger Pries, Martin Seeliger -- Redefining the meaning of land : property rights and land use in a privatized commons in Kenya / Carolyn K. Lesorogol -- Trial and error, study and sweat : Yoshida Saburos smallholding in northeastern Japan, 1935 / Donald C. Wood -- Self-employed women in the informal economy : beach vendors in Acapulco / Tamar Diana Wilson -- Women's autonomy and microcredit repayment delay / Kristiano Raccanello -- The labor topography of central highland Guatemala youth : employment diversification, health, and education in the context of poverty / Liliana Goldín -- The integration of periodic markets in Mayan Guatemala : a gravity approach / E. Anthon Eff, Christa D. Jensen -- The flow of goods and service in hierarchically ordered rural societies : patronage, clientage and the Livro Da Vertuoso Bemfeitoria of the Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal / Sidney M. Greenfield.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 17, 2014).

This thirty-fourth volume in the REA series contains fourteen chapters by a variety of researchers touching on a wide range of topics in economic anthropology and covering a vast geographical area. The chapters are divided into four sections: one focusing on commodities and their social meanings and values, one organized around the anthropological investigation of business systems and practices, one concentrating on the economic importance of productive land in culture and society, and finally one that showcases a variety of new research on the economic anthropology of Latin America. Geographic areas featured in the volume include Africa (Kenya and Mauritius), Europe (Britain, Germany, and Romania), North America (Mexico and Guatemala), South America (Brazil), East Asia (Japan), and Western Asia (Jordan). Standing apart from these four sections is a special feature essay by noted anthropologist Sidney Greenfield that calls for a re-evaluation of the global capitalist system as it stands today.

English.

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