Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Chris Hann and the Anthropological Study of Economic Life Kirsten W. Endres and Deema Kaneff
Part I: Reconsidering (Post)Socialist Spaces
Chapter 1. Civilizations and Economies: Notes on a Neglected Theme Johann P. Arnason
Chapter 2. From Halecki to Hann: The Historiography of Historical Regions Stefan Troebst
Chapter 3. Out of The Frying Pan and into The Fire, or Modernization Forever? Economic Strategies in the Transformation of Peasant Societies Mihály Sárkány
Chapter 4. Something to Be Nostalgic About? Goulash Socialist and Postsocialist Rural Society in Hungary Nigel Swain
Chapter 5. Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone: The Indivisibility of Economic and Discursive Aspects in Neoliberal and Populist Regimes in Poland Michał Buchowski
Chapter 6. Making a Reality of Other People’s Fictions: A Smithian Critique of Post-Marxian and Polányi-ite Accounts of Exploitation Michael Stewart
Chapter 7. Resilience and Surveillance in Hann’s Eurasia Steven Sampson
Part II: Economic Anthropology in a Changing World
Chapter 8. Hijra, Port and Market: Pre-Ottoman Economies in South-West Arabia's Zaydi Realm Andre Gingrich
Chapter 9. From Social Norms to Legal Norms: Regulating Work in Post-Neoliberal Political Economies Ruth Dukes and Wolfgang Streeck
Chapter 10. The Moral Economy of Anthropological Scholarship Monica Heintz
Chapter 11. Some Thoughts on Embeddedness, Value and the Moral Dimension in the Work of Chris Hann Frances Pine
Chapter 12. Property, Resources and Gauging Social Change Deema Kaneff
Chapter 13. Birth, Property, and the Male Descendant: Some Evidence from India Chris Gregory
Chapter 14. What Has Happened to Turkish Tea? Thoughts on a Cash Crop, the Turkish State and Society in this Millennium Lale Yalçin-Heckmann
Part III: Economies of the Sacred and Secular
Chapter 15. Economy is a Ritual Stephen Gudeman
Chapter 16. The Rice, the Rice Goddess and the Sickle: An Agricultural ‘Revolution’ among the Bru of Khe Sanh, 1989 Gábor Vargyas
Chapter 17. The Dharma and the Dime: Money and Buddhist Morality Christoph Brumann
Chapter 18. Stealing Goddesses: The Political Economy of Kingship in Premodern India Burkhard Schnepel
Chapter 19. Dalits and the Market: Liberation or Oppression? David Gellner
Chapter 20. Polanyi Goes to Mauritius: Economy and Society in the Postcolony Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Publications by Chris Hann Index