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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Economic Anthropology"”.
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The economic value of natural resources around the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and implications for the Khomani San in South Africa
… term in academic circles. This is a study in economic anthropology which seeks to fully understand the complexity of the economics of a hunter gatherer people in the Kgalagadi area. Despite the change in the lifestyle and values of the San people, they have and continue to provide valuable …
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Rivers that become reservoirs: an ethnography of water commodification in Lesotho
… attributed to commodified water by neoliberal economic policy. Where the relationships between people and water are financialised, commodification sets people and water apart in planning and policies as if they are separate entities. Focusing on the effects of the Lesotho Highlands Water …
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Capoeira as a Resource: Multiple Uses of Culture Under Conditions of Transnational Neoliberalism
… While they initially sought to create economic capital, a whole range of indirect repercussions followed: they generated affective communities, disseminated a Brazilian imaginary soon transformed into symbolic capital, and arguably transmitted an embodied memory that can be traced back …
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Brand Kerala: Commodification of Open Source Ayurveda
… are more often that not at loggerheads with `economic stakes'.</p><p>The arguments in this dissertation are built over and contribute to three bodies of anthropological research: economic anthropology engaged in the study of commodities and commodification processes, ecological anthropology …
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Economy electric : techno-economics, neoliberalism, and electricity in the United States
This dissertation is a study of emergent economic forms of life. It investigates recent remakings of economic existence and modes of disseminating these forms of life, and does so with particular reference to the crafting of electricity markets in the United States. It draws on more than a year of …
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Fiscal Sovereignty: Reconfigurations of Value and Citizenship in Post-Financial Crisis Argentina
… individualism shared by neo-classical economic science and Anglo-American citizenship theory, and the relational and recursive nature of monetary value, which exceeds, and cannot be encompassed by, the languages of market exchange and the social contract. The first chapter is a …
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Marketing indigeneity: identity negotiations of two generations of informal vending women in neoliberal Bolivia
… but stretches to encompass political and economic characteristics, claimed through market knowledge and practice. I have titled this work “marketing indigeneity” because it illustrates the ambivalence of the cholas’ indigenous and entrepreneurial duality and because I argue that these …
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The Scattered Accounts: Trading Dynamics and Community Formation Among Retail Investors (Sanhu) in China’s Stock Market
… of sanhus within China’s unique political-economic system, particularly through the perspectives of a group often perceived as cynical and irrational. By examining the experiences and behaviours of modestly resourced individual investors, the thesis analyses the specific characteristics and …
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Technological Systems of Small Point Weaponry of the Postclassic Lowland Maya (A.D. 1400 - 1697)
… between seemingly mundane artifacts and past economic behaviors that are critically important to Postclassic Maya studies.
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The Rise and Fall of Markets Along Bluefields Bay, Jamaica
This research uses ethnographic and historical data to explore the rise and fall of rural markets along Bluefields Bay, Jamaica, particularly the community of Belmont. The objective of this study is to answer the following questions: (1) When, why, and how did market activity in Belmont begin? (2) …
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The Greedy Eaters: A moral politics of continuity and consumption in urbanising central Kenya
… this thesis identifies moral debate about economic practice as an important and understudied terrain of anthropological inquiry. Departing from conventional understandings of the ‘moral economy’ as cohesive and harmonious circuits of reciprocity, ‘moral politics’ explores the divergent, …
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Mastering the Margins: A Chinese Mine in Mongolia
… well as Mongolia’s fear of China’s contemporary economic might, cast a long shadow over the relationship between these two neighbours. Examining the complex, delicate, and fraught Sino-Mongolian relations, this thesis presents an ethnographic study of a Chinese-owned private fluorspar mine and …