Between kinship ties on the one hand and the state on the other, human beings experience a divers...

Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, The Great Transformation, offered a radical critique of how the market ...

An innovative contribution to the thinking about economic anthropology.The ethnographies illiumin...

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Describes how the ideals of self-sufficiency shape economic activity in many post-socialist areas...

This volume brings social and cultural anthropologists into dialogue with historical sociology an...

The focus on regular versus precarious labour.Case studies from outside the familiar Euro-America...

Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific was a major contribution to anthropological theory ...

The term 'civil society' has in recent years enjoyed something of a vogue. Social scientists in m...

This volume considers how the work of Polanyi can contribute to our understanding of the relation...

An innovative contribution to the thinking about economic anthropology.The ethnographies illiumin...