Overview

Caldararo (anthropology, San Francisco State U.) intends this volume to serve both as an introduction to economic anthropology and as a demonstration of the usefulness of cultural history in the study of the evolution of human institutions. He first reviews the pertinent literature, addressing questions of surplus versus wealth; the relationship be

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Author:   Niccolo Caldararo
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Imprint:   Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Edition:   illustrated edition
ISBN:  

9780773463240

ISBN 10:   0773463240
Pages:   409
Publication Date:   August 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Anthropology and Economics: A Review; 1. Anthropology and the Cosmology of a Modern Economics; 2. Wants, Needs and the Question of Surplus vs. Wealth; 3. Complexity and Stability or Stagnation: Declining Returns and the Business Cycle; 4. Wealth, Consumption, Quality of Life and Standard of Living; 5. The Great Debate: Economists and Anthropologists: The Market and Society, Continued; Part II. Introduction to Hominid Economics; 6. Introduction; 7. Forest Fires, Origins and Myths; 8. Traditional Peoples and Fire; 9. Climate and Fire, Assessing Time's Arrow and the Antiquity of Anthropogenic Fire; 10. Forest Management in Modern and Traditional Society; 11. The Degraded Environment and Homo Sapiens; 12. Co-evolutionary Processes and Environmental Exploitation; 13. Makeup and Nature of Forests: Fire-Adapted Species vs. 'Old Growth' Determining Fire History: Fire Scars, Fire; 14. Histories and Thermal Alteration; 15. Insects, Biomass Reduction and Pesticides; 16. Conclusion: Forests and The Future of Man; Part III Cycles of Growth and Collapse versus the Possibility of Sustainable Societies; 17. Introduction; 18. The Problem of Population and the Nature of Human Society; 19. Consumerism and Sustainability: Japan as an Example; 20. The Evolution of Modern Japan and its Transformation; Part IV The Role of Ideology and Religious Precepts in the Containment and Change of Society: A Modernist View; 21. Ideology and Religious Precepts and Motivations: Why People Work; 22. Fundamentalism versus Globalism; Part V Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

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This is a book that resituates economic anthropology squarely at the center of our most pressing contemporary issues, and does so in a way that forces us to rethink our history, our future and our perennial relationship to the environment that ultimately sustains us and respect for which is the only basis for the sustainability of any form of human life and civilization. - (From the Preface) John Clammer, Sophia University, Tokyo

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