Dedication

Production, Consumption, Business and the Economy: Structural Ideals and Moral Realities

ISBN: 978-1-78441-056-8, eISBN: 978-1-78441-055-1

ISSN: 0190-1281

Publication date: 16 September 2014

Citation

(2014), "Dedication", Production, Consumption, Business and the Economy: Structural Ideals and Moral Realities (Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 34), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, p. v. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0190-128120140000034016

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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This volume of REA is dedicated to my father-in-law, Yūnosuke Takahashi (1933–2014) – banker, businessman, student of anthropology, father, and grandfather, and one ofthe greatest men I ever knew – who was growing up inAkita City while Yoshida Saburō was busy tending tohis farm and writing his dairy in the not-too-distantvillage of Wakimoto. Requiescat in pace.

Production, Consumption, Business and the Economy: Structural Ideals and Moral Realities
Production, Consumption, Business and the Economy: Structural Ideals and Moral Realities
Research in Economic Anthropology
Copyright Page
Dedication
List of Contributors
Introduction
The English Enlightenment and “The Economy”: How Some Men with a Vision Created the Modern World and Its Problems
Proprietary Contest, Business Ethics, and Conflict Management: A Multi-Sited Commodity Ethnography
Three Shades of Embeddedness, State Capitalism as the Informal Economy, Emic Notions of the Anti-Market, and Counterfeit Garments in the Mauritian Export Processing Zone
Japanese “Merchants of Culture”: The Publishing Business in Japan
“Is it Really Islamic?” Evaluating the “Islam” in Islamic Banking in Amman, Jordan
Financialization and Financial Labor: Ethnographies of Finance and “Ethnographic Reflections” on British Retail Stockbroking
BMW – Mastering the Crises with “New Efficiency?”
Redefining the Meaning of Land: Property Rights and Land Use in a Privatized Commons in Kenya
Trial and Error, Study and Sweat: Yoshida Saburō’s Smallholding in Northeastern Japan, 1935
Self-Employed Women in the Informal Economy: Beach Vendors in Acapulco
Women’s Autonomy and Microcredit Repayment Delay
The Labor Topography of Central Highland Guatemala Youth: Employment Diversification, Health, and Education in the Context of Poverty
The Integration of Periodic Markets in Mayan Guatemala: A Gravity Approach
The Flow of Goods and Service in Hierarchically Ordered Rural Societies: Patronage, Clientage, and the Livro Da Virtuosa Bemfeitoria of the Infante Dom Pedro of Portugal ☆ Revised version of a paper prepared for the session “Rethinking Patron-Client Reciprocity in Neo-liberal Capitalism” at the 109th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA, November 17, 2010.
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