Explorations in Economic Anthropology: Key Issues and Critical Reflections

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