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Defiant Women of the Sea: Challenging the Gendering of the Spanish Fishery Sector 海上反抗的妇女：挑战西班牙渔业部门的性别

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Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-12-23 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.70025

Iselin Åsedotter Strønen

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Trust in the Trustless: Chronotopes of Currency in Adult Industry Crypto 无信任中的信任：成人行业加密货币的年表

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Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-12-22 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.70022

Esra Soraya Padgett

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We Hear, for You: The Value of Listening to Our Corporate Colleagues 我们倾听，为了你：倾听公司同事的价值

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Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-12-22 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.70028

Jess Beck

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Micropolitics of Secrecy: Traders' Enactments of Expertise After the Failed Military Coup in Turkey 保密的微观政治：土耳其军事政变失败后贸易商的专业知识制定

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Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-12-21 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.70023

Deniz Coral-Irwin

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A Modest Proposal for University Reform: It's Time We Stop Half-Assing Neoliberalism and Start Whole-Assing It 对大学改革的一个温和建议：是时候停止对新自由主义的半途而废，开始对其全盘否定了

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Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-12-20 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.70030

Michael Scroggins

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An Immodest Rejoinder: Illiberalism and Postliberalism, But Still Neoliberalism 不谦虚的反驳：非自由主义和后自由主义，但仍然是新自由主义

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Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-12-20 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.70029

Michael Scroggins

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Virtual Pets, Real Precarity: Crypto Gaming as Speculative Labor in Inflation-Ridden Cuba 虚拟宠物，真正的不稳定性：加密游戏在通货膨胀肆虐的古巴作为投机劳动

IF 1 4区社会学

Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.70031

Steffen Köhn, Nestor Siré

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The Coin's Third Side: Illiberal Money and the Sociality of a Community Currency 硬币的第三面：不自由的货币和社区货币的社会性

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Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-12-12 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.70024

Daromir Rudnyckyj

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Was the Inca Economy Based on “Protomoney”? Or, Why Accounting Systems Should Not Be Conflated With Concepts of Exchange Value 印加经济是以“原货币”为基础的吗？或者，为什么会计制度不应该与交换价值的概念混为一谈

IF 1 4区社会学

Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-12-12 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.70020

Alf Hornborg

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From Rare to Common: The Live Streaming Industry of Jadeite Trade in Ruili in the China–Myanmar Borderlands 从罕见到常见：中缅边境瑞丽翡翠贸易直播产业

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Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-12-10 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.70026

Yi Ma

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