Publications

January 18, 2017

New issue of Economic Anthropology is out!

Volume 4, issue 1 of Economic Anthropology is now available.

Please have a look at the 10 exciting new articles spanning a wide variety of topics, AND, be sure to check out our new SYMPOSIUM section with FREE ACCESS to all. These are 5 short essays that each respond to the same question. In this first issue, the question is: How can economic anthropology contribute to a more just world? Authors of these essays include:

Gillian Tett
Keith Hart
Alf Hornborg
Jane Guyer
Rick Wilk

Articles in this issue:

Roads, value, and dispossession in Baja California Sur, Mexico

Authors: Ryan Anderson

The hidden labor of repayment: Women, credit, and strategies of microenterprise in northern Honduras

Authors: Lauren A. Hayes

Space, female economies, and autonomy in the shotgun neighborhoods of Port?au?Prince, Haiti

Authors: Vincent Joos

Oil territorialities, social life, and legitimacy in the Peruvian Amazon

Authors: Peter Bille Larsen

Drivers and deterrents of entrepreneurial enterprise in the risk?prone Global South

Authors: Brandon D. Lundy, Mark Patterson, Alex O’Neill

The semiotics of carbon: Atmospheric space, fungibility, and the production of scarcity

Authors: Raquel Machaqueiro

A subtle economy of time: Social media and the transformation of Indonesia’s Islamic preacher economy

Authors: Martin Slama

Don’t mix Paxil, Viagra, and Xanax: What financiers’ jokes say about inequality

Authors: Daniel Souleles

A space for secondhand goods: Trading the remnants of material life in Hong Kong

Authors: Trang X. Ta

From externality in economics to leakage in carbon markets: An anthropological approach to market making

Authors: Shaozeng Zhang

January 13, 2016

New REA volume: Climate change, Culture and Economics

We are delighted to announce the publication of Climate Change, Culture, and Economics edited by Donald C. Wood, Akita University. This is volume 35 in the Research in Economic Anthropology series, which is sponsored by the Society for Economic Anthropology. This special volume of REA facilitates readers to better understand the ways in which people around the world have adapted (or failed to adapt) culturally to changing economic conditions caused by climate change. It focuses on specific situations in particular locations, showcasing (and confirming) the strength and value of intensive ethnographic or archaeological investigation.

SEA members will be entitled to a 40% discount on this volume six months following publication, in March 2016. The previous volume, Production, Consumption, Business and the Economy: Structural Ideals and Moral Realities (Volume 34), is now available at a 40% discount. To redeem this offer go to http://books.emeraldinsight.com/offer/ and enter the code SEA-REA.

More information here.

May 14, 2015

Special pricing for Capitalism in Oceania REA Volume

Engaging with Capitalism: Cases from Oceania
Reduced to £30 while stocks last
Perfect price if you’re teaching a course in this area!

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Within this book, authors question how the market economy has been variously negotiated by groups who also have other systems through which they organize their social and economic life. What has worked for these people, what has not, and why? The volume addresses how, as a social and economic system, capitalism has been very effective in generating wealth and technological innovation, but has also been associated with great social inequity and environmental damage. Its inherent flaws have been highlighted by the escalation of ecological problems arising from growth-oriented capitalism and various economic crises, the latest being the Global Financial Crisis and its on-going fallout.

“I think this is an extraordinary rich edited volume that provides a comprehensive coverage of diverse engagements with capitalism in Oceania. The editors have crafted the volume in a masterful way beginning with a thorough engagement with the latest theories. The book addresses a crucial issue of the moment, as late capitalism is in a state of great global uncertainty and flux. The actions evident in strategic responses reported in this volume provide important new interpretations of the role of local agency and non-capitalist social forms in the 21st century, twenty years after the erroneously heralded ‘end of history’.”
Emeritus Professor Jon Altman, Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet), College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Australia

Special offer for SEA members

SEA members can claim an exclusive 40% discount off all volumes* of Research in Economic Anthropology, simply quote SEA-REA at the checkout.

Selected volumes are available in paperback.

*40% discount is available for volumes 6 months after publication and cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.

Brand new for 2015

Look out for the brand new volume “Local Cultural Responses to the Economic Challenges of Climate Change” due for publication in autumn.

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