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Books by Duran Bell






Theory in Economic Anthropology
(Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series)
by Jean Ensminger, Contributor-Timothy Earle, Contributor-Duran Bell, Contributor-Elena Obukhova, Contributor-Richard Wilk, Contributor-Joseph Henrich, Contributor-Deborah Winslow, Edwins Laban Gwako, James M. Acheson, Robert C. Hunt, Jeffrey H. Cohen, Associate Professor Deborah Winslow, Professor Karen Tranberg Hansen, E. Paul Durrenberger
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2001 by Altamira Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-0205-7, ISBN: 0-7591-0205-8

"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 ..."






Property in Economic Context(Updated)
(Monographs in Economic Anthropology Series)
by Robert C. Hunt, Antonio Gilman, Contributor-Duran Bell, Contributor-Paula Brown, Contributor-Cathy Costin, Contributor-Andrew Fleming, Contributor-Willem Wolters, Contributor-Michael Hudson, Charles A. Bishop, Jean-Philippe Colin, Timothy K. Earle, Patricia A. Mcanany, Walter C. Neale, Pauline E. Peters, E. Paul Durrenberger, Contributor-Timothy K.
Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 1998 by Upa
ISBN-13: 978-0-7618-1064-3, ISBN: 0-7618-1064-1

"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 ..."






Values and Valuables(Updated)
From the Sacred to the Symbolic: From the Sacred to the Symbolic (Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series)
by Duran Bell, Cynthia Ann Werner, Colin Danby, Mahir Saul, Maurice Godelier, David Mushinski, Kathleen Pickering, Melanie Rock, Françoise Dussart, Lynne Milgram, Brian Moeran, James A. Egan, Beth E. Notar, Georgia L. Fox, Professor Brian Moeran, Eric J. Arnould, Carolyn Folkman Curasi, Linda L. Price, Lynne Milgram M.D. Mba, Jim Weil, Malcolm W. Klein, Werner/Bell, Fran ºoise Dussart, Altamira Press
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2003 by Altamira Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-0545-4, ISBN: 0-7591-0545-6

"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 ..."






Values and Valuables
From the Sacred to the Symbolic (Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series)
by Duran Bell, Cynthia Werner, Maurice Godelier, Françoise Dussart, Colin Danby, Mahir Saul, Lynne Milgram, Kathleen Pickering, David Mushinski, Brian Moeran, Melanie Rock, James A. Egan, Georgia L. Fox, Beth E. Notar, Eric J. Arnould, Carolyn Folkman Curasi, Linda L. Price, Jim Weil, Altamira Press
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2004 by Altamira Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-0544-7, ISBN: 0-7591-0544-8

"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 ..."






Theory in Economic Anthropology(Updated)
(Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series)
by Jean Ensminger, Timothy Earle, Duran Bell, Elena Obukhova, Richard Wilk, Joseph Henrich, Deborah Winslow, Edwins Laban Gwako, James M. Acheson, Robert C. Hunt, Jeffrey H. Cohen, Associate Professor Deborah Winslow, Professor Karen Tranberg Hansen, E. Paul Durrenberger, Ensminger/Cohen/Hunt
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2001 by Altamira Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-0206-4, ISBN: 0-7591-0206-6

"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 Duran Bell
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 Duran Bell
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, Duran Bell
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 Duran Bell
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2004 by Altamira Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-0489-1, ISBN: 0-7591-0489-1






Property in Economic Context
(Monographs in Economic Anthropology Series)
by Robert C. Hunt, Antonio Gilman, Duran Bell, Charles A. Bishop, Paula Brown, Jean-Philippe Colin, Cathy Costin, Timothy K. Earle, Andrew Fleming, Michael C. Hudson, Patricia A. Mcanany, Walter C. Neale, Pauline E. Peters, Willem Wolters, E. Paul Durrenberger
Hardcover, 392 Pages, Published 1998 by Upa
ISBN-13: 978-0-7618-1063-6, ISBN: 0-7618-1063-3

"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 Duran Bell
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 Duran Bell
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 ..."

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