ABSTRACT

This volume is not simply another general theory of world system. It is a theoretically and ethnographically informed collection of essays which opens up new questions through an examination of concrete cases, covering global and local questions of political economy.

chapter 1|42 pages

The Value Question

chapter 2|32 pages

Beyond Gifts and Commodities

chapter 3|48 pages

Land as the Supreme Good

chapter 5|49 pages

Mercantile Kinship

chapter 6|22 pages

Usury, Interest and Usance

chapter 7|33 pages

Domesticated Money

chapter 8|33 pages

Savage Money

chapter 9|16 pages

Toward a Radical Humanist Anthropology