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Title:

Anthropological considerations of production, exchange, vending and tourism / edited by Donald C. Wood.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Emerald Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xiv, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Economic anthropology.
Production (Economic theory)
Exchange.
Selling.
Tourism.

Other Authors:

Wood, Donald C., editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : production, exchange, vending, and tourism -- Production. Cultural economics and ramifications of home-brewing, selling and consumption of alcohol among the Maragoli of Western Kenya / Edwins Laban Moogi Gwako -- Synergistic change and smallholder agriculture in Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica / Deborah Sick -- Transition to farming more likely in a land of plenty / Serge Svizzero -- Exchange. Long-distance exchange and centralized political power in Pre-Columbian America / Kathryn M. Hudson and John S. Henderson -- Markets of the heart: weighing economic and ethical values at Ten Thousand Villages / Laurel Zwissler -- Provisioning, shopping and productive leisure at North Market, Columbus, Ohio / Lisa Marie Beiswenger and Jeffrey H. Cohen -- Relative customers: demand-sharing, kinship and selling in Solomon Islands / Rodolfo Maggio -- Vending. Struggles with changing politics: street vendor livelihoods in contemporary China / Shuru Zhong and Hongyang Di -- Sons of peasants on the beach: vendors in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico / Tamar Diana Wilson -- Tourism. Debts and uncertainty: circulation of advance money among tourism entrepreneurs in Agra, India / Riddhi Bhandari -- Making easy money : resilience and risk in Jamaica / Lauren C. Johnson.

Series:

Research in economic anthropology, 0190-1281 ; volume 37

ISBN:

1787431959
9781787431959

OCLC:

(OCoLC)985076041

LCCN:

2017304365

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)