Contesting Markets: Anthropology of Ideology, Discourse and Practice - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748603719 ISBN 13: 9780748603718

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 1992

Synopsis

The ideology of free market economics has become commonplace in Europe and America, yet the concept of the market and its implications for non-Western societies has been underinvestigated. This book challenges traditional views of market discourse and the idea that it dominates all social processes. Strongly cross-cultural and comparative, it first examines the historical and sociological background to market discourses, then analyzes how these discourses are deployed in peasant and other markets. Finally it looks at the manner in which other cultures describe their various systems of exchange. This book is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students of anthropology, especially economic anthropology and the sociology of development. It should also be useful as a secondary text to those studying contemporary social and cultural theory, economic and social history, sociology and development planning.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748603719
• ISBN 13: 9780748603718
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Dilley Roy