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- Title
La nouvelle anthropologie économique.
- Authors
Urteaga, Eguzki
- Abstract
The book "La nouvelle anthropologie économique" by Caroline Dufy and Florence Weber focuses on the evolutions of economic anthropology after the fundamental transformation in the social sciences between the seventies and nineties. It explores the dialogue between the anthropological perspective and economic science, using economic ethnography as a method to understand economic transformations in their entirety. The book also analyzes the history of economic anthropology and the different theoretical currents that have emerged over time. The dialogue between ethnography and economic science focuses on calculation and how different groups make economic calculations. Economic ethnography is found at the intersection of various fields of research and focuses on the study of market and non-market transactions. In non-market transactions, things are not separated from people and are governed by implicit rules. The text also mentions potlatch and kula as forms of non-market exchange. Additionally, economic ethnography questions the rational and abstract view of classical economics and analyzes the social, cultural, and ethnic context in which market exchange is embedded. Finally, the importance of understanding valuation in price fixing is highlighted. The text presents a summary of a book on economic anthropology that addresses various topics related to the market and consumption. The importance of intermediaries in commercial transactions is emphasized, as well as the diversity of moral values linked to the market. The commodification of nature and environmental rights are also mentioned, as well as the evolution of the relationship between the state and the market. The role of currency is analyzed and new forms of exchange and consumption in the digital age are mentioned. Additionally, the topic of companies and entrepreneurs is addressed, as well as the role of the state in the economy. In the fifth chapter of the book, the social definition of work is discussed and how economic anthropology uses the Marxist notion of domestic mode of production to analyze production relationships outside of wage labor. It highlights how advances in communication and intermediation platforms have reconfigured the boundaries between paid and unpaid work in various industries worldwide. In the sixth chapter, globalization and its consequences are discussed, including the transition from planned economies to market economies in Eastern Europe and the effects of development in Southern countries. Anthropology has contributed to a better understanding of exchanges and economic relationships and has criticized the economistic approach of international development programs. Globalization has accelerated the circulation of goods, services, capital, and consumers, transforming the relationship between the global and the local. The new economic anthropology seeks to dialogue with economic science through direct observation and fieldwork.
- Subjects
EASTERN Europe; ECONOMIC anthropology; BUSINESSPEOPLE; ECONOMIC history; CONSUMPTION (Economics); CENTRAL economic planning; ENVIRONMENTAL rights; GRAVE goods
- Publication
Athenea Digital (Revista de Pensamiento e Investigación Social), 2024, Vol 24, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
2014-4539
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5565/rev/athenea.3488