Property in Economic Context

by Hunt, Robert C.; Gilman, Antonio

• ISBN13: 9780761810636
• ISBN10: 0761810633
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Amer

Summary

Co-published with the Society for Economic Anthropology, Property in Economic Context presents fifteen original essays examining the definition and organization of property in the context of economic organization. Focusing on precapitalist societies as accessed through history and archaeology, as well as modern colonial encounters accessed through ethnography, the essays argue for and illustrate the importance of including specific property features when doing an analysis of economic organization. This is the first time that general property issues have been empirically investigated in this manner.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part I Concepts of Property	3	(64)
Chapter One CONCEPTS OF PROPERTY: INTRODUCTION	3	(4)
Robert C. Hunt
Chapter Two PROPERTIES OF PROPERTY: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES	7	(22)
Robert C. Hunt
Chapter Three THE SOCIAL RELATIONS OF PROPERTY AND EFFICIENCY	29	(18)
Duran Bell
Chapter Four PROPERTY: LAW, COTTON-PICKIN' HANDS, AND IMPLICIT CULTURAL IMPERIALISM	47	(20)
Walter C. Neale
Part II Property in Precapitalist Societies	67	(170)
Chapter Five PROPERTY IN PRECAPITALIST SOCIETIES: INTRODUCTION	67	(6)
Antonio Gilman
Chapter Six OBSCURED BY THE FOREST: PROPERTY AND ANCESTORS IN LOWLAND MAYA SOCIETY	73	(16)
Patricia A. McAnany
Chapter Seven PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THE EVOLUTION OF HAWAIIAN CHIEFDOMS	89	(30)
Timothy Earle
Chapter Eight CONCEPTS OF PROPERTY AND ACCESS TO NONAGRICULTURAL RESOURCES IN THE INKA EMPIRE	119	(20)
Cathy Lynne Costin
Chapter Nine PRIVATE LANDOWNERSHIP, DEBT, AND FISCAL CRISIS IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST	139	(32)
Michael Hudson
Chapter Ten PROPERTY, STATE, AND SELF-DESTRUCTION IN MEDIEVAL ICELAND	171	(16)
E. Paul Durrenberger
Chapter Eleven THE CHANGING COMMONS: THE CASE OF SWALEDALE (ENGLAND)	187	(28)
Andrew Fleming
Chapter Twelve RECONSTRUCTING PROPERTY SYSTEMS FROM ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE	215	(22)
Antonio Gilman
Part III Modern Colonial Encounters	237	(142)
Chapter Thirteen MODERN COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS: INTRODUCTION	237	(10)
Robert C. Hunt
Chapter Fourteen THE POLITICS OF PROPERTY AMONG NORTHERN ALGONQUIANS	247	(22)
Charles A. Bishop
Chapter Fifteen SIMBU PROPERTY	269	(20)
Paula Brown
Chapter Sixteen LAND, PROPERTY, AND CREDIT CONTRACTS IN PRIANGAN, WEST JAVA, 1870s THROUGH THE 1920s: LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND PRIVATE ORDERING	289	(28)
Willem G. Wolters
Chapter Seventeen THE EMERGENCE OF PRIVATE PROPERTY IN LAND AND THE DYNAMICS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION: A CASE STUDY FROM THE IVORY COAST	317	(34)
Jean-Philippe Colin
Chapter Eighteen THE EROSION OF COMMONS AND THE EMERGENCE OF PROPERTY: PROBLEMS FOR SOCIAL ANALYSIS	351	(28)
Pauline E. Peters
About the Contributors	379