The Household Economy

Richard R. Wilk Department of Anthropology Indiana University

Introduction and Issues of Theory -- Introduction: Dimensions and Dilemmas of Householding -- Strategies of Resource Management in Household Economies: Moral Economy or Political Economy? -- Decision Making and Resource Flows Within the Household: Beyond the Black Box -- Case Studies of Household Decision Making, Resource Flow, and Power -- Making Breakfast and Raising Babies: The Zumbagua Household as Constituted Process -- Eating the Dead Chicken: Intra-Household Decision Making and Emigration in Rural Portugal -- Separation Between Trading and Home for Asante Women in Kumasi Central Market, Ghana -- Fijian Household Practices and the Reproduction of Class -- Authority and Conflict in Slavonian Households: The Effect of Social Environment on Intra-Household Processes1 -- Separateness and Relation: Autonomous Income and Negotiation Among Rural Bobo Women -- Implications of Household Processes for Agricultural Development -- Tubuai Women Potato Planters and the Political Economy of Intra-Household Gender Relations -- Smallholders, Householders, Freeholders: Why the Family Farm Works Well Worldwide -- Gender and Intra/Inter-Household Analysis in On-Farm Research and Experimentation