| Capitalism: An Ethnographic Approach Contributor(s): Miller, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1859731236 ISBN-13: 9781859731239 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1997 Annotation: This provocative book challenges many of our ingrained assumptions about the direction of contemporary capitalism and offers fresh perspectives that will inform the development of a new and relevant political economy for our times. The complex and often contradictory world within which modern commodities are produced, sold and consumed is set within the larger context of transnational business and economic developments. The importance of factors such as profitability and globalization is highlighted, and a sophisticated analysis of the contradictions and ironies of the world of modern commodities emerges. Trinidad provides an ideal setting for this study, given its recent oil boom and recession and the subsequent experience of both wealth and poverty. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Commerce - Political Science - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 381.456 |
| LCCN: 96035850 |
| Series: Explorations in Anthropology |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.77" W x 8.79" (1.17 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This provocative book challenges many of our ingrained assumptions about the direction of contemporary capitalism and offers fresh perspectives that will inform the development of a new and relevant political economy for our times. The complex and often contradictory world within which modern commodities are produced, sold and consumed is set within the larger context of transnational business and economic developments. The importance of factors such as profitability and globalization is highlighted, and a sophisticated analysis of the contradictions and ironies of the world of modern commodities emerges. Trinidad provides an ideal setting for this study, given its recent oil boom and recession and the subsequent experience of both wealth and poverty. |
Contributor Bio(s): Miller, Daniel: - Daniel Miller Professor of Anthropology, University College London. Recent books include "A Theory of Shopping," "The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach" (with Don Slater) and Ed. "Car Cultures." |