General Note:
Author born and educated in New Zealand.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. Economy and society -- 2. Gift exchange and reciprocity -- Trade rings of Papua -- The Kwakiutl potlatch -- East African cattle complex -- An overview of Melanesian exchange -- Melanesia in a modern context Prestation and gift-giving -- Prestation and modernization -- 3. Monetized peasant marketing -- The markets of Haiti and Mesoamerica -- Malayan and Indonesian markets -- West Africa trade -- Colonial market control -- Market place systems -- social relations of the Market place -- Limitations in peasant marketing -- 4. Approaches to articulation in the economy -- Babylonian administration -- Port of trade enclaves -- dual economy and plural society -- Similarities in modern states -- 5. Conditions for the modernization of the market economy.
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