Explorations in Economic Anthropology

Deema Kaneff is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Birmingham in the UK and Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany.

Acknowledgements



Introduction: Chris Hann and the Anthropological Study of Economic Life

Kirsten W. Endres and Deema Kaneff



Part I: Reconsidering (Post)Socialist Spaces



Chapter 1. Civilizations and Economies: Notes on a Neglected Theme

Johann P. Arnason



Chapter 2. From Halecki to Hann: The Historiography of Historical Regions

Stefan Troebst



Chapter 3. Out of The Frying Pan and into The Fire, or Modernization Forever? Economic Strategies in the Transformation of Peasant Societies

Mihály Sárkány



Chapter 4. Something to Be Nostalgic About? Goulash Socialist and Postsocialist Rural Society in Hungary

Nigel Swain



Chapter 5. Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone: The Indivisibility of Economic and Discursive Aspects in Neoliberal and Populist Regimes in Poland

Michał Buchowski



Chapter 6. Making a Reality of Other People’s Fictions: A Smithian Critique of Post-Marxian and Polányi-ite Accounts of Exploitation

Michael Stewart



Chapter 7. Resilience and Surveillance in Hann’s Eurasia

Steven Sampson



Part II: Economic Anthropology in a Changing World



Chapter 8. Hijra, Port and Market: Pre-Ottoman Economies in South-West Arabia's Zaydi Realm

Andre Gingrich



Chapter 9. From Social Norms to Legal Norms: Regulating Work in Post-Neoliberal Political Economies

Ruth Dukes and Wolfgang Streeck



Chapter 10. The Moral Economy of Anthropological Scholarship

Monica Heintz



Chapter 11. Some Thoughts on Embeddedness, Value and the Moral Dimension in the Work of Chris Hann

Frances Pine



Chapter 12. Property, Resources and Gauging Social Change

Deema Kaneff



Chapter 13. Birth, Property, and the Male Descendant: Some Evidence from India

Chris Gregory



Chapter 14. What Has Happened to Turkish Tea? Thoughts on a Cash Crop, the Turkish State and Society in this Millennium

Lale Yalçin-Heckmann



Part III: Economies of the Sacred and Secular



Chapter 15. Economy is a Ritual

Stephen Gudeman



Chapter 16. The Rice, the Rice Goddess and the Sickle: An Agricultural ‘Revolution’ among the Bru of Khe Sanh, 1989

Gábor Vargyas



Chapter 17. The Dharma and the Dime: Money and Buddhist Morality

Christoph Brumann



Chapter 18. Stealing Goddesses: The Political Economy of Kingship in Premodern India

Burkhard Schnepel



Chapter 19. Dalits and the Market: Liberation or Oppression?

David Gellner



Chapter 20. Polanyi Goes to Mauritius: Economy and Society in the Postcolony

Thomas Hylland Eriksen



Publications by Chris Hann

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