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Gifts and commodities
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- Book Synopsis
- Christopher A. Gregory's Gifts and Commodities is one of the undisputed classics of economic anthropology. On its publication in 1982, it spurred intense, ongoing debates about gifts and gifting, value, exchange, and the place of political economy in anthropology.Gifts and Commodities is, at once, a critique of neoclassical economics and development theory, a critical history of colonial Papua New Guinea, and a comparative ethnography of exchange in Melanesian societies. This new edition includes a foreword by anthropologist Marilyn Strathern and a new preface by the author that discusses the ongoing response to the book and the debates it has engendered, debates that have become more salient in our evermore neoliberal and globalized era.
- About The Author
- C. A. Gregory teaches anthropology at the Australian National University and the University of Manchester. He is the author of Observing the Economy, Savage Money: The Anthropology and Politics of Commodity Exchange, and Lachmi Jagar: Gurumai Sukdai's Story of the Bastar Rice Goddess.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780990505013
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- HAU Books, (17 March 2015)
- Number of Pages
- 336
- Weight
- 606 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 28 mm
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