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Engaging with Capitalism: Cases from Oceania
Fiona McCormack
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Description for Engaging with Capitalism: Cases from Oceania
Hardback. The volume addresses how capitalism has been very effective in generating wealth and technological innovation, but has also been associated with social inequity and environmental damage. Its inherent flaws have been highlighted by the escalation of ecological problems arising from growth-oriented capitalism and various economic crises. Editor(s): McCormack, Fiona; Barclay, Kate. Series: Research in Economic Anthropology. Num Pages: 350 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 680.
For several decades people have been grappling with how to retain the material safety and cultural richness of indigenous non-capitalist societies and economies, but also gain the health, wealth, education and life opportunities the modern capitalist world offers. This book brings together examples of attempts to forge locally appropriate versions of modernity; development that suits the aspirations and circumstances of particular groups of people. Authors question how the market economy has been variously negotiated by groups who also have other systems through which they organize their social and economic life. What has worked for these people, what has not, and ... Read more
For several decades people have been grappling with how to retain the material safety and cultural richness of indigenous non-capitalist societies and economies, but also gain the health, wealth, education and life opportunities the modern capitalist world offers. This book brings together examples of attempts to forge locally appropriate versions of modernity; development that suits the aspirations and circumstances of particular groups of people. Authors question how the market economy has been variously negotiated by groups who also have other systems through which they organize their social and economic life. What has worked for these people, what has not, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
Series
Research in Economic Anthropology
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Bingley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781905418
SKU
V9781781905418
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Ref
99-50
About Fiona McCormack
McCormack F. - University of Waikato, New Zealand Barclay K. - University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Reviews for Engaging with Capitalism: Cases from Oceania
'With its contributing authors' combined strengths of long-term ethnographic and applied experience and interdisciplinarity, this volume should also hold much appeal for development practitioners and policy-makers.' - Rachel E. Smith, University of Manchester. Reviewed in The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2015