Cultural Economies Past and Present

by Rhoda H. Halperin and Rhoda H. Halpern

Book Overview

When anthropologists and other students of culture want to compare different societies in such areas as the organization of land, labor, trade, or barter, they often discover that individual researchers use these concepts inconsistently and from a variety of theoretical approaches, so that data from one society cannot be compared with data from another. In this book, Rhoda Halperin offers an analytical tool kit for studying economic processes in all...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029273090X
• ISBN13: 9780292730908
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"