"This new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology examines the unique contributions of anthropologists to general economic theory. Editor Jean Ensminger and other contributors challenge our understanding of human economies in the expanding global systems of interaction, with models and analyses from cross-cultural research. They examine a broad range of theoretical concerns from the new institutionalism, debates about wealth, e ..."
"Co-published with the Society for Economic Anthropology, Property in Economic Context presents fifteen original essays examining the definition and organization of property in the context of economic organization. Focusing on precapitalist societies as accessed through history and archaeology, as well as modern colonial encounters accessed through ethnography, the essays argue for and illustrate the importance of including specific prop ..."
"In this exciting new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology, Cynthia Werner and Duran Bell bring together a group of distinguished anthropologists and economists to discuss the complex ways in which different cultures imbue material objects with symbolic qualities whose value cannot be reduced to material or monetary equivalents. Objects with sacred or symbolic qualities are valued quite differently than mundane objects, and ..."
"In this exciting new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology, Cynthia Werner and Duran Bell bring together a group of distinguished anthropologists and economists to discuss the complex ways in which different cultures imbue material objects with symbolic qualities whose value cannot be reduced to material or monetary equivalents. Objects with sacred or symbolic qualities are valued quite differently than mundane objects, and ..."
"This new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology examines the unique contributions of anthropologists to general economic theory. Editor Jean Ensminger and other contributors challenge our understanding of human economies in the expanding global systems of interaction, with models and analyses from cross-cultural research. They examine a broad range of theoretical concerns from the new institutionalism, debates about wealth, e ..."
The Last 73,400 Years Social Relations in Prehistory by DuranBell Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 2015 by Outskirts Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4787-4408-5, ISBN: 1-4787-4408-1
"The Last 73,400 Years: Social Relations in Prehistory Of the thousands of species which have visited the Earth, less than 4 percent have survived; and all members of the genus Homo have vanished, except for one physically unimposing species: Homo sapiens. How did we survive and manage to thrive during the unimaginably treacherous climate of the last ice age? Explanations of our very peculiar survival commonly cite possession of langu ..."
The Last 73,400 Years Social Relations in Prehistory (Hardback) by DuranBell Hardcover, Published 2015 by Outskirts Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4787-5706-1, ISBN: 1-4787-5706-X
Values and Valuables From the Sacred to the Symbolic by Cynthia Werner, DuranBell 352 Pages, Published 2004 by Rowman Altamira ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-1590-3, ISBN: 0-7591-1590-7
"From the Sacred to the Symbolic Cynthia Werner, Duran Bell. from the University
of South Florida in 1998. Dr. Curasi has been published in scholarly outlets
including The ... Colin Danby received a Ph.D. in economics from the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1997 and is now associate professor of
interdisciplinary arts and sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell. He
has written about financial-sector reforms in El ..."
Wealth and Power Survival in a Time of Global Accumulation (Hardback) by DuranBell Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2004 by Altamira Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-0489-1, ISBN: 0-7591-0489-1
"Co-published with the Society for Economic Anthropology, Property in Economic Context presents fifteen original essays examining the definition and organization of property in the context of economic organization. Focusing on precapitalist societies as accessed through history and archaeology, as well as modern colonial encounters accessed through ethnography, the essays argue for and illustrate the importance of including specific prop ..."
Wealth and Power Survival in a Time of Global Accumulation by DuranBell Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2003 by Altamira Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-0490-7, ISBN: 0-7591-0490-5
"In Wealth and Power Duran Bell presents a key reconception of wealth as a globally-managed social resource. By observing the implications of wealth on a cross-cultural and multisocietal basis, Bell offers new insights into the implications of capital formation during a period of global accumulation. He analyzes the way in which leading centers of capitalist enterprise are transforming systems of state-managed capitalism into a global sy ..."
The Last 73.4 Thousand Years Social Relations in Prehistory by DuranBell Paperback, 177 Pages, Published 2015 by Createspace Independent Pub ISBN-13: 978-1-5143-9530-1, ISBN: 1-5143-9530-4
"The Last 73,400 Years: Social Relations in Prehistory Of the thousands of species which have visited the Earth, less than 4 percent have survived; and all members of the genus Homo have vanished, except for one physically unimposing species: Homo sapiens. How did we survive and manage to thrive during the unimaginably treacherous climate of the last ice age? Explanations of our very peculiar survival commonly cite possession of langu ..."