General Note:
Reprint of the ed. published for the American Museum of Natural History by the Natural History Press, Garden City, N.Y., in series: American Museum sourcebooks in anthropology.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-564) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. General views: The organization of economic life / Manning Nash ; Primitive economics / Daryll Forde and Mary Douglas ; Thoward a theory of modernization / Neil J. Smelser -- 2. Africa: Africa's lamd / Paul Bohannan ; Traditional production in primitive African economies / George Dalton ; The problem of Tutsi domination / Jacques Maquet ; Bunyoro : an African feudality? / J.H.M. Beattie ; Raffia cloth distribution in the Lele economy / Mary Douglas ; The impact of money on an African subsistence economy / Paul Bohannan ; Economic changes in South African native life / I. Schapera ; The development of subsistence and peasant economies in Africa / George Dalton -- 3. Oceania: Kula : the circulating exchange of valuables in the archipelagoes of eastern New Guinea / B. Malinowski ; Tribal economics in the Trobriands / B. Malinowski ; Pigs and currency in Buin / Richard C. Thurnwald ; Rossel Island money : a unique monetary system / W.E. Armstrong ; Primitive money / George Dalton -- 4. Asia: Toward a model of the Hindu jajmani system / Pauline Mahar Kolenda ; The family as a primary economic group [China] / Martin C. Yang ; The disintegration of the old family system [feudal Japan] / Matsuyo Takizawa ; Social change and economic modernization in two Indonesian towns : a case in point / Clifford Geertz -- 5. Europe: Wealth and labor [archaic Greece] / M.I. Finley ; Aspects of medieval European economy / Henri Pirenne ; The meaning and presuppositions of modern capitalism / Max Weber ; The evolution of the capitalistic spirit / Max Weber ; Peasant origins / Oscar E. Handlin -- 6. America: The potlatch / Philip Drucker ; Pomo trade feasts / Andrew P. Vayda ; Types of Latin American peasantry / Eric R. Wolf ; The social content of economic choice in a small society / Manning Nash.
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