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Contents:Acknowledgements • Introduction Stephen GudemanPart I: Theories1. Manning Nash (1961), ‘The Social Context of Economic Choice in a Small Society’2. Stuart Plattner (1989), ‘Economic Behavior in Markets’3. Allen Johnson (1980), ‘The Limits of Formalism in Agricultural Decision Research’4. Maurice Godelier (1978), ‘Infrastructures, Societies, and History’5. Michael Taussig (1977), ‘The Genesis of Capitalism Amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil’s Labor and the Baptism of Money’6. Marshall D. Sahlins (1965), ‘On the Sociology of Primitive Exchange’7. Jonathan Parry (1986), ‘The Gift, the Indian Gift and the “Indian Gift”’8. Stephen Gudeman (1986), ‘Physiocracy: a Natural Economics’9. Stephen Gudeman and Alberto Rivera (1990), ‘The House’10. Nurit Bird-David (1992), ‘Beyond “The Original Affluent Society”: A Culturalist Reformulation’Part II: Processes: Production11. Fredrik Barth (1964), ‘Capital, Investment and the Social Structure of a Pastoral Nomad Group in South Persia’12. Paul and Laura Bohannan (1968), ‘Farms and Produce (Yiagh)’13. Paul and Laura Bohannan (1968), ‘Land Rights: Social Relations in Terrestrial Space’14. Clifford Geertz (1972), ‘The Wet and the Dry: Traditional Irrigation in Bali and Morocco’15. E.R. Leach (1960), ‘The Sinhalese of the Dry Zone of Northern Ceylon’16. Stephen Gudeman (1986), ‘Rice and Sugar: Local Models of Change’Part III: Processes: Exchange17. Bronislaw Malinowski (1922/1961), ‘The Essentials of the Kula’18. Keith Hart (1986), ‘Heads or Tails? Two Sides of the Coin’19. Caroline Humphrey (1985), ‘Barter and Economic Disintegration’20. Maurice Godelier (1977), ‘“Salt Money” and the Circulation of Commodities among the Baruya of New Guinea’21. Igor Kopytoff (1986), ‘The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process’Part IV: Processes: Spheres of Exchange22. Paul Bohannan (1955), ‘Some Principles of Exchange and Investment among the Tiv’23. Fredrik Barth (1967), ‘Economic Spheres in Darfur’Part V: Processes: Markets24. Sidney W. Mintz (1961), ‘Pratik: Haitian Personal Economic Relationships’25. Alfred Gell (1982), ‘The Market Wheel: Symbolic Aspects of an Indian Tribal Market’Part VI: Processes: Consumption26. Mary Douglas and Baron Isherwood (1978), ‘Separate Economic Spheres in Ethnography’27. Mary Beth Mills (1997), ‘Contesting the Margins of Modernity: Women, Migration, and Consumption in Thailand’
