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The field of economic anthropology has had some resurgence in interest recently after largely being placed aside around the 1970s. This handbook brings new insight and research into the field; therefore, the impact should be rather extensive since there have been no major works published on the subject since 2011.
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Call for Chapters: Handbook of Research on Modern
Economic Anthropology
Editors
Bryan Christiansen, Global Training Group, Ltd. (United Kingdom/USA)
Dr. Oxana Karnaukhova, Southern Federal University (Russia)
Call for Chapters
Proposals Submission Deadline: August 12, 2019
Full Chapters Due: December 10, 2019
Submission Date: April 3, 2020
Introduction
Economic anthropology is a field that attempts to explain human economic behavior in its widest
historic, geographic and cultural scope. Economic anthropology studies how human societies
provide the material goods and services that make life possible. In the course of material
provisioning and
during the realization of consumption, people relate to each other in ways that convey power and
meaning. It is practiced by anthropologists and has a complex relationship with the discipline of
economics of which it is highly critical. Its origins as a sub-field of anthropology began with
work by the Polish founder of anthropology Bronislaw Malinowski and the French Marcel
Mauss on the nature of reciprocity as an alternative to market exchange. For the most part,
studies in economic anthropology focus on exchange. In contrast, the Marxian school known as
"political economy" focuses on production.
As globalization became a reality, and the division between market and non-market economies –
between "the West and the Rest" – became untenable, anthropologists began to look at the
relationship between a variety of types of exchange within market societies. Neo-substantivists
examine the ways in which so-called pure market exchange in market societies fails to fit market
ideology. Economic anthropologists have abandoned the primitivist niche they were relegated to
by economists. They now study the operations of corporations, banks, and the global financial
system from an anthropological perspective.
Objective
The field of economic anthropology has had some resurgence in interest recently after largely
being placed aside around the 1970s. This handbook brings new insight and research into the
field; therefore, the impact should be rather extensive since there have been no major works
published on the subject since 2011.
Target Audience
The primary target audience for this publication is scholars and practitioners in economics and
anthropology who require an updated Reference source on this topic. The secondary target
audience is graduate students.
Recommended Topics
Introduction to Economic Anthropology
Political Economy
Theoretical Issues in Economic Anthropology
Contemporary Economic Systems and Models
Capitalism
Socialism
Communism
Karl Polanyi and the Substantivist School
The Formalist-Substantivist Debate
Money Anthropology
Informal Economies
Distribution and Exchange
Writings of Bronislaw Malinowski and Raymond Firth
Contemporary Economic Theories
Relevance of Economy to Economic Anthropology
Comparative Economic Systems
Economic Development After World War II
Individual Behavior vs. Social Organization
Primitive Economies
Traditional and Subsistence Economies
Theoretical Frameworks for Economic Anthropology
Socio-Economic Change in the 21st Century
Pre-Industrial Economic Theory
Peasant Economies
Sequential Process Analysis
Internal Redistribution and Reciprocity
Degenerative Change
Growth Without Development
Modernization Today
Research in Economic Anthropology
Social Dimensions in Economic Processes
Human Behavioral Ecology
Market Liberalization
Corporate Social Responsibility
Economic Integration
Morality
Political and Cultural Change
Consumption
Social Reproduction
Provisioning
Religion and Ethics in Economy
Environmental Policies
Ethnography in Economic Anthropology
International Cooperation
Social Reproduction
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before August 12, 2019, a chapter
proposal no more than 1,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her
proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by August 20, 2019 about the status of their proposals
and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by December 10, 2019,
and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at
http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission.
All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also
be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
Note: There are NO submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book
publication, Managerial Strategies for Navigating Economic Nationalism. All manuscripts are
accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.
All proposals should be submitted through the E-Editorial DiscoveryTM online submission
manager.
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of
the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information
Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference"
imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.
This publication is anticipated to be released in 2020.
Important Dates
Chapter Proposals Due Date: September 1, 2019
Full Chapter Submission: December 10, 2019
Double-blind Peer Review Process: December 11, 2019 to January 24, 2020
Author Chapter Revisions: March 6, 2020
All Final Accepted Materials: April 3, 2020
Inquiries
Bryan Christiansen at: globaltraininggroup@protonmail.com
Oxana Karnaukhova at: oskarnauhova@sfedu.ru
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