Barter, exchange, and value : an anthropological approach / edited by Caroline Humphrey and Stephen Hugh-Jones.
This book concerns barter, a transaction in which objects are exchanged directly for one another without the use of money. Economists treat barter as an inefficient alternative to market exchange, and assume that it is normal only in 'primitive' economies or marks the breakdown of more dev...
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1992.
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Table of Contents:
- Politicised values : the cultural dynamics of peripheral exchange / Nicholas Thomas
- Yesterday's luxuries, tomorrow's necessities : business and barter in northwest Amazonia / Stephen Hugh-Jones
- Some notes on the economics of barter, money and credit / Luca Anderlini and Hamid Sabourian
- Fair dealing, just rewards : the ethics of barter in North-East Nepal / Caroline Humphrey
- Inter-tribal commodity barter and reproductive gift-exchange in old Melanesia / Alfred Gell
- Qualified value : the perspective of gift exchange / Marilyn Strathern.