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Contested values of grogue in Cabo Verde 佛得角有争议的格罗格价值观

IF 0.9 4区社会学

Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-04-21 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12317

Brandon D. Lundy, Nancy Hoalst-Pullen, Mark W. Patterson, Monica H. Swahn

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Economy of production: A theory of household labor organization and material reuse 生产经济：家庭劳动组织和材料再利用理论

IF 1.2 4区社会学

Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-04-16 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12320

Maureen S. Meyers

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Evaluating well-being after compulsory resettlement: Livelihoods, standards of living, and well-being in Manantali, Mali 评估强制重新安置后的福祉：马里马南塔利的生计、生活水平和福祉

IF 0.9 4区社会学

Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-04-16 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12322

Dolores Koenig

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The moral economy of land markets in the Nicaragua highlands 尼加拉瓜高原土地市场的道德经济

IF 1.2 4区社会学

Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-04-12 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12313

Santiago Ripoll

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Unlearning hope: White Christian encounters with grace as a logic of exchange 唤醒希望：白人基督徒遭遇作为交换逻辑的恩典

IF 0.9 4区社会学

Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-04-12 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12321

Christine Jeske

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Sanctified suffering and the common good: Translocal health care provisioning in smalltown Senegal 圣洁的苦难与共同利益：塞内加尔小镇的跨地方医疗服务

IF 0.9 4区社会学

Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-04-11 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12315

Benjamin R. Burgen, Meredith G. Marten

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Toward an economic anthropology of wisdom 走向智慧的经济人类学

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Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12312

Kathleen M. Millar

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The value added of solidarity economies: Bureaucratic constructions of value for alternative economic policy in Ecuador 团结经济的附加值：厄瓜多尔替代经济政策的官僚价值构建

IF 1.2 4区社会学

Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-04-05 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12318

Alexander D'Aloia

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Liquid homeownership: Navigating future horizons to turn homeownership into assets in Bucharest, Romania 流动房屋所有权：在罗马尼亚布加勒斯特探索未来前景，将房屋所有权转化为资产

IF 1.2 4区社会学

Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12316

Alexandra Ciocanel

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The rise and fall of national capitalism 民族资本主义的兴衰

IF 0.9 4区社会学

Economic Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-01-15 DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12310

John Keith Hart

{"title":"The rise and fall of national capitalism","authors":"John Keith Hart","doi":"10.1002/sea2.12310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12310","url":null,"abstract":"For three millennia, there has been a conflict between landed military power (the traditional enforcers, now nation-states) and urban commerce (capitalists, now a lawless global plutocracy). This ancient battle was resumed by the European Renaissance, culminating in industrial revolution around 1800. This seemed at first to be a victory of the money interest over landed power. In the mid-nineteenth century, however, the capitalists discovered that they could not manage without crowd control by the traditional enforcers, a compromise between money and landed power (business and government) that unleashed “national capitalism” in political revolutions involving the leading powers of the last century. These generated mass production and consumption at home and a global takeover by European colonial empires, both enabled by a bureaucratic revolution first proposed by Hegel. National capitalism—a merger of industrial capitalism and the “nation” by strong states attempting to modify the former's contradictions through central bureaucracies acting in the interest of the citizen body—became the main form of society after the Second World War, first through developmental states varying from socially responsible capitalism in the United States through social democracy in Europe to communism in the Soviet bloc, with the newly independent former colonies divided between the antagonists in the Cold War. Undermined by financial imperialism in the last four decades, this system is now failing, but humanity is far from achieving a world society to replace it.","PeriodicalId":45372,"journal":{"name":"Economic Anthropology","volume":"11 1","pages":"134-144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139473828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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