Format:
1 Online-Ressource (365 p)
ISBN:
9781786352286
Series Statement:
Research in Economic Anthropology v.36
Content:
This book consists of three sections. The first, concentrating on ecology, further explores the theme of climate change. The second section focuses on exchange transactions and relations in a variety of situations and settings. Finally, papers in the third section share a concern with individual and group adaptations to certain conditions of life
Content:
Front Cover -- The Economics of Ecology, Exchange, and Adaptation: Anthropological Explorations -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editorial Advisory Board -- Introduction: Anthropological Explorations of Incongruous Perspectives in the Economics of Ecology, Exchange, and Adaptation -- References -- Part I: Climate, Environment, and Conservation -- Regulating the Ogallala: Paradox and Ambiguity in Western Kansas -- Introduction -- Methods -- The Ogallala: Economic, Environmental, and Social Significance -- The Corn Economy -- The State Steps in
Content:
Regulatory Infrastructure -- Regulatory Practice -- Views from the Farm -- Discussion: Paradox and Ambiguity -- The Embedded State -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Contested Understandings of Sustainability and Climate Issues in Southern Costa Rica -- Setting and Methodology -- Deforestation and Climate Change: Shifting Patterns of Rain and Warmth -- Erosion and Land Degradation -- Conclusions -- References -- Climate Variability in West Africa: A Case Study in Vulnerability and Adaptation on the Northern Central Plateau, Burkina Faso -- Introduction -- Methods and Data
Content:
Sahelian Desiccation -- Vulnerability to Climate Variability -- Agricultural Adaptations to Climate Variability -- Conclusion -- References -- Contested Affluence: Cultural Politics of Pashmina Wealth and Wildlife Conservation in Ladakh -- Introduction -- Pre-1962 -- Post-1962 -- Situating Wildlife Conservation Discourse -- An Imagined Ecological Balance -- Resource Access, Power and Cultural Politics -- Contested Affluence -- Access to Pastures -- Cooptation and Institutional Bricolage -- Access to Labour -- Moral Economy of Khimse and Cooperative to Commercial Labour Exchange
Content:
Access to Market -- State Dependency, Fixed Market Locations and Border Sensitivities -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part II: Negotiating the Social and the Economic in Exchange Relations -- Maximizing Social Proximity in Market Relations: The Networks of Nigerian Immigrant Business Owners in New York City -- Immigrant Business Owner Vulnerability -- Social Networks and Immigrant Business Owners -- Methods -- The Role of Trust, Obligations, and Social Signaling in Network Building -- Suppliers -- Employees -- Customers -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments
Content:
References -- The Hau of the Theft: Reciprocity, Reputation and the Koh-i-Noor Diamond -- Introduction -- Crown Jewels -- The Koh-i-noor and its History -- The History -- The Gift, Genealogies of Exchange, and Prestige -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The Space between Community and Self-Interest: Conflict and the Experience of Exchange in Heroin Markets -- The Problem -- Caveats and Orientations -- Methods and Setting -- Exchange -- The Economic Heroin Trade -- The Social Heroin Trade -- Trust and Trading "Fairly" -- Mentored Reciprocity -- Conflict Processes -- Buyer-Broker Conflict
Content:
Buyer-Dealer Conflict
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781786352279
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The economics of ecology, exchange, and adaption: anthropological explorations Bingley : Emerald, 2016 ISBN 9781786352286
Language:
English
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