Economic Analysis Beyond the Local System

by Blanton, Richard E.; Atwood, Donald W.; Bradley, Candice; Clark, Gracia; Durrenberger, E. Paul; Feinman, Gary M.; Hall, Thomas D.; Li, Tania Murray; Morris, Earl W.; Murphy, Arthur D.; Peregrine, Peter N.; Toth, James; Trager, Lillian; Turner, ChristinaBo

• ISBN13: 9780761803423
• ISBN10: 0761803424
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-12-30
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

NOTE Special Title: Co-published with Society for Economic Anthropology

Table of Contents

Introduction: Economic Analysis Beyond the Local System - and Back Again
Main Assumptions and Variables for Economic Analysis Beyond the Local System	p. 3
Macro-Scale Perspectives on Settlement and Production in Ancient Oaxaca	p. 13
The Millennium Before the "Long Sixteenth Century:" How Many World-Systems Were There?	p. 43
A Local Elite and Underdevelopment in a Peripheral Economy: Iceland in the 18th-20th Centuries	p. 71
Finding the Global in the Local	p. 87
Emerging Linkages in the World System and the Challenge to Economic Anthropology	p. 97
Fertility in Maragoli: The Global and the Local	p. 109
Producing Agrarian Transformation at the Indonesian Periphery	p. 125
The Invisible Peasant	p. 147
Historical Perspectives on Long Term Change: Compadrazgo Choice Patterns in Rural Paraguay	p. 171
Anthropology and Structural Adjustment Programs	p. 197
Local-Global Interactions in Ghana's Structural Adjustment	p. 209
Household Adaptations in a Regional Urban System: The Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico	p. 235
Structural Adjustment, Hometowns, and Local Development in Nigeria	p. 255
Rural Workers and the Re-Adjustment of Egypt's Economy: Applying Regulation Theory to Anthropology	p. 291
Contributors	p. 317
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