Barter, exchange, and value : an anthropological approach

Weitere Verfasser: Humphrey, Caroline
Hugh-Jones, Stephen 1945-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Umfang/Format: vii, 203 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction : barter, exhange and value / Caroline Humphrey and Stephen Hugh-Jones
  • Politicised values : the cultural dynamics of peripheral exchange / Nicholas Thomas
  • Yesterday’s luxuries, tomorrow’s necessities : business and barter in northwest Amazonia / Stephen Hugh-Jones
  • Some notes on the economics of barter, money and credit / Luca Anderlini and Hamid Sabourian
  • Fair dealing, just rewards : the ethics of barter in North-East Nepal / Caroline Humphrey
  • Inter-tribal commodity barter and reproductive gift-exchange in old Melanesia / Alfred Gell
  • Qualified value : the perspective of gift exchange / Marilyn Strathern.