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Synopsis
A study containing a combination of theory, ethnography and history, focusing upon critical issues of economic organization and change. Labour organization, land tenure and the division of labour by age and sex are treated in the context of both practical and theoretical problems.
Synopsis
Preface and Acknowledgements - Introduction: Economies Across Cultures: the Anthropological Approach - Paradigms for Studying Economies Across Cultures - The Institutional Paradigm in Economic Anthropology - Formal Models - Ecological and Institutional Paradigms: Production and the Organisation of Labour Among Hunter-Gatherers - Administered Production: Continuities in Mexican Political Economy - Age and Institutional Paradigm - Towards a Comparative Science of the Economy: Defining Units of Analysis - Index