Economists treat barter as an inefficient alternative to market exchange, assuming that it is normal only in primitive economies. For their part, anthropologists are more concerned with the social and moral complexities of the "gift," and treat barter as mere haggling. The authors in this collection do not accept that barter occupies a residual space between monetary and gift economies. Using accounts from different parts of the world, they demonstrate that it is more than a simple and self-evident economic institution. Barter may constitute a mode of exchange with its own social characteristics, occupying its own moral space. This novel treatment of barter represents an original and topical addition to the literature on economic anthropology.
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Barter has always been associated with social margins. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
indigenous service economy, barter model, reproductive gift exchange, peripheral exchange, reproductive gifts, salt bars, barter transactions, exchange items Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, New Guinea, North-East Nepal, New York, Chicago University Press, Caroline Humphrey, The Hague, University of California Press, New Delhi, New Haven, Academic Press, Amazonian Indians, American Economic Review, American Ethnologist, Casa Arana, Harvard University Press, Mansutti Rodriguez, Nancy Levine, Review of Economic Studies, Yale University Press New!
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Barter has always been associated with social margins. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
indigenous service economy, barter model, reproductive gift exchange, peripheral exchange, reproductive gifts, salt bars, barter transactions, exchange items Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, New Guinea, North-East Nepal, New York, Chicago University Press, Caroline Humphrey, The Hague, University of California Press, New Delhi, New Haven, Academic Press, Amazonian Indians, American Economic Review, American Ethnologist, Casa Arana, Harvard University Press, Mansutti Rodriguez, Nancy Levine, Review of Economic Studies, Yale University Press New!
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- Stone Age Economics by Marshall Sahlins on 4 pages
- Gifts and Commodities (Studies in political economy) by Christopher A. Gregory on page 140, page 168, and page 190
- Marxist Anthropology (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Godelier on page 168, and page 190
- A Discourse on Inequality (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau on page 42, and page 74
- Rethinking History and Myth: Indigenous South American Perspectives on the Past by Jonathan D. Hill on page 74
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- The Vanishing Rouble: Barter Networks and Non-Monetary Transactions in Post-Soviet Societies by Paul Seabright on 4 pages
- Russia's Economy of Favours: Blat, Networking and Informal Exchange (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies) by Alena V. Ledeneva in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Memory of Trade: Modernity’s Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island by Patricia Spyer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Being Muslim the Bosnian Way by Tone Bringa in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- In Amazonia: A Natural History by Hugh Raffles in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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