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Anth 416
Econ Anth

Spring 1984
A. Dewey

READING LIST (cont)

Selections from E.E. LeClair and H.K. Schneider - "Economic Anthropology: Readings in Theory and Analysis"

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Formalist Theory (Part II of LeClair and Schneider)
1. Raymond Firth - "The Social Framework of Economic Organization." (Section II. No. 4) from - "Elements of Social Organization."
2. Lionel Robbins - "The Subject Matter of Economics" (Section III, No. 5) from - "An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science"
3. Robbins Burling - "Maximization Theories and the Study of Economic Anthropology" (Section V, No. 10) from American Anthropologists, Vol. 54, pp. 802-821.
4. E.E. LeClair - "Economic Theory and Economic Anthropology" (Section V, No. 11) from AA, 64:11 79-120.
5. Scott Cook - "The Obsolete 'Anti-Market' Mentality: A Critique of the Substantive Approach to Economic Anthropology" (Section V, No. 12) from AA 68:323-345.
6. Frank Cancian - "Maximization as Norm, Strategy, and Theory: A Comment on Programmatic Statements in Economic Anthropology" (Section V, No. 13) from AA 68:465-470.

Case Material from LeClair and Schneider (Part III)

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7. B. Malinowski - "Malinowski on the Kula" *Section I, No. 1) from Argonauts of the Western Pacific
8. Paul Bohannan - "Some Principles of Exchange and Investment Among the Tiv" from AA 57:60-70, No. 18)
9. Fredrik Barth - "Capital, Investment and the Social Structure of a Pastoral Nomad Group in South Persia" (No. 27) from Firth and Yamey (ed.) "Capital, Savings, & Credit in Peasant Societies"

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General Theoretical Overviews - Part I in LeClair and Schneider

10. "Introduction: The Development of Economic Anthropology"
Part Four - Some Further Theoretical Issues

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Part Five - Economic Anthropology Retrospect and Prospect (2pp)
11. Scott Cook - "Economic Anthropology: Problems in Theory, Method, and Analysis" from J.J. Honigmann (ed) Handbook of Social and CUltural Anthropology

Not to be read in toto but useful for definitions:

H.K. Schneider - "Economic Man"