Sociology and anthropology of economic life: the moral embedding of economic action/
Sociology and anthropology of economic life: the moral embedding of economic action/
edited by Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- viii, 304 p. ; 22 cm.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ; 1. Introduction (Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das); Section I - Strategies and Networks; ; 2. The Genesis and Growth of a Business Community: A Case Study of Vaghri Street Traders in Ahmedabad (Emma Tarlo); ; 3. Slum Dwellers, Savings, Gifts and their External Credit Relations for Shelter (Peer Smets); ; 4. Lords of Labour: Working and Shirking in Bhilai (Jonathan Parry); ; 5. Demoralizing Developments: Ethics, Class and Student Power in Modern North India (Craig Jeffrey); ; 6. Caste and Corporatist Capitalism (Barbara Harriss-White); Section II - Transnational and Global Markets; ; 7. Indian Merchants Networks Outside India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Preliminary Survey (Claude Matkovits); ; 8. 'Very Bombay': Contending with the Global in an Indian Advertising Agency (William Mazzarella); ; 9. In Search of 'Basmatisthan': Agro-Nationalism and Globalization (Denis Vidal); ; 10. The Social Production of Development Success (David Mosse); ; 11. Gender, Dowry, and the Migrations System of Indian Information Technology Professionals (Xiang Biao); ; 12. Legitimacy, Power and Healing: The Bhopal Case (Veena Das); Notes on Contributors; Index
0199453322
Resource-based communities
Consumption (Economics)--Moral and ethical aspects
Economic anthropology
306.30954 / DAS/S
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ; 1. Introduction (Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das); Section I - Strategies and Networks; ; 2. The Genesis and Growth of a Business Community: A Case Study of Vaghri Street Traders in Ahmedabad (Emma Tarlo); ; 3. Slum Dwellers, Savings, Gifts and their External Credit Relations for Shelter (Peer Smets); ; 4. Lords of Labour: Working and Shirking in Bhilai (Jonathan Parry); ; 5. Demoralizing Developments: Ethics, Class and Student Power in Modern North India (Craig Jeffrey); ; 6. Caste and Corporatist Capitalism (Barbara Harriss-White); Section II - Transnational and Global Markets; ; 7. Indian Merchants Networks Outside India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Preliminary Survey (Claude Matkovits); ; 8. 'Very Bombay': Contending with the Global in an Indian Advertising Agency (William Mazzarella); ; 9. In Search of 'Basmatisthan': Agro-Nationalism and Globalization (Denis Vidal); ; 10. The Social Production of Development Success (David Mosse); ; 11. Gender, Dowry, and the Migrations System of Indian Information Technology Professionals (Xiang Biao); ; 12. Legitimacy, Power and Healing: The Bhopal Case (Veena Das); Notes on Contributors; Index
0199453322
Resource-based communities
Consumption (Economics)--Moral and ethical aspects
Economic anthropology
306.30954 / DAS/S