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Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance
Power, Ethics, and Social Capital Across the Last Millennium (Paperback or Softback)
by James B. Greenberg, Thomas K. Park, Park/Greenberg
Paperback, 330 Pages, Published 2019 by Lexington Books, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4580-8, ISBN: 1-4985-4580-7

"Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance takes an anthropological approach to the roots of Western finance and credit in ancient societies from early Mesopotamia to eleventh-century Islam."






Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico
by Thomas Weaver, William L. Alexander, James B. Greenberg, Anne Browning-Aiken
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2012 by University Press Of Colorado
ISBN-13: 978-1-60732-171-2, ISBN: 1-60732-171-8

""Neoliberalism and Commodity Production" in Mexico details the impact of neoliberal practice on the production and exchange of basic resources in working-class communities in Mexico. Using anthropological investigations and a market-driven approach, contributors explain how uneven policies have undermined constitutional protections and working-class interests since the Mexican Revolution of 1910.Detailed ethnographic fieldwork shows how ..."






Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance
Power, Ethics, and Social Capital across the Last Millennium
by James B. Greenberg, Thomas K. Park, Greenberg/Park
Hardcover, 330 Pages, Published 2017 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4578-5, ISBN: 1-4985-4578-5

"In Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance: power, ethics, and social capital across the last millennium the authors take an anthropological approach to the economic history of the past 1000 years. The standard financial histories of Europe have underestimated the importance of Europe's multicultural roots. The book builds on the author's earlier volume, The roots of Western Finance (Park & Greenberg), which examines finance from 4000 BC ..."






The Roots of Western Finance
Power, Ethics, and Social Capital in the Ancient World
by Thomas K. Park, James B.Greenberg, B. Greenberg/Park
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2017 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4581-5, ISBN: 1-4985-4581-5

"In The Roots of Western Finance: Power, Ethics, and Social Capital in the Ancient World, Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg take an anthropological approach to credit. They suggest that financial activities occur in a complex milieu, in which specific parties, with particular motives, achieve their goals using a form of social, cultural, or economic agency. They examine the imbrication of finance and hidden interests in Mesopotamia, ..."






Blood Ties
Life and Violence in Rural Mexico
by James B. Greenberg
Paperback, 282 Pages, Published 1993 by University Of Arizona Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-1379-6, ISBN: 0-8165-1379-1

"The first-person account of a Oaxacan man demonstrates that the blood feuds wracking the Mexican countryside today originated when coffee growers began to expropriate communal lands. Greenberg considers the strategies people use to avoid or deal with violence, patterns of conflict, and the process of dispute expansion or resolution."






Reimagining Political Ecology(6th Edition)
(New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
by Aletta Biersack, James B. Greenberg, Michael R. Dove, Gisli Palsson, Eeva Berglund, Richard Wilk, Joel Robbins, Soren Hvalkof, J. Peterbrosius, J. Stephenlansing, John Schendelder, Veron Scarborough, Professor Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau
Paperback, 419 Pages, Published 2006 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3672-3, ISBN: 0-8223-3672-3

""Reimagining Political Ecology" is a state-of-the-art collection of ethnographies grounded in political ecology. When political ecology first emerged as a distinct field in the early 1970s, it was rooted in the neo-Marxism of world system theory. This collection showcases second-generation political ecology, which retains the Marxist interest in capitalism as a global structure but which is also heavily influenced by poststructuralism, ..."






The Roots of Western Finance
Power, Ethics, and Social Capital in the Ancient World (Paperback or Softback)
by Thomas K. Park, James B.Greenberg, B. Greenberg/Park
304 Pages, Published 2019 by Lexington Books Jun 2019
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4583-9, ISBN: 1-4985-4583-1

"In The Roots of Western Finance, Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg take an anthropological approach to origins of western finance and credit in ancient societies, covering a period of five thousand years from ancient Mesopotamia to the ..."






Terrestrial Transformations
A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature
by Thomas K. Park, James B. Greenberg, Diane E. Austin, Mamadou Baro, Simon Batterbury, Séverine Bouard, Anita Carrasco, Lisa L. Gezon, Matthias Kowasch, Edward Liebow, Sarah K. Meltzhoff, Aminata Niang, Ravic Nijbroek, Victoria Phaneuf, Angela Storey, Ylva Uggla, Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, Alaka Wali, Casey Walsh
Hardcover, 318 Pages, Published 2020 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-79360-546-7, ISBN: 1-79360-546-7

"Humanity’s future may rest on how we deal with climate change, environmental problems, and their impacts on society. Terrestrial Transformations: A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature recognizes that such problems have social, political, and cultural contexts, and that politics, money, and power have physical impacts on nature and society that cannot be ignored. This book brings together a set of authors whose chapters prov ..."






Santiago's Sword(1st Edition)
Chatino Peasant Religion and Economics
by James B. Greenberg
Hardcover, 250 Pages, Published 1992 by Univ Of California Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-04135-6, ISBN: 0-520-04135-6






Blood Ties
Life and Violence in Rural Mexico
by James B. Greenberg
Hardcover, 282 Pages, Published 1989 by University Of Arizona Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-1091-7, ISBN: 0-8165-1091-1

"The first-person account of a Oaxacan man demonstrates that the blood feuds wracking the Mexican countryside today originated when coffee growers began to expropriate communal lands. Greenberg considers the strategies people use to avoid or deal with violence, patterns of conflict, and the process of dispute expansion or resolution."






Reimagining Political Ecology
(New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
by Aletta Biersack, James B. Greenberg, Michael R. Dove, Gisli Palsson, Eeva Berglund, Richard Wilk, Joel Robbins, Soren Hvalkof, J. Peterbrosius, J. Stephenlansing, John Schendelder, Veron Scarborough, Professor Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau
Hardcover, 440 Pages, Published 2006 by Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3685-3, ISBN: 0-8223-3685-5

""Reimagining Political Ecology" is a state-of-the-art collection of ethnographies grounded in political ecology. When political ecology first emerged as a distinct field in the early 1970s, it was rooted in the neo-Marxism of world system theory. This collection showcases second-generation political ecology, which retains the Marxist interest in capitalism as a global structure but which is also heavily influenced by poststructuralism, ..."






Schooling the Symbolic Animal
Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education
by Margaret A. Eisenhart, Michele Foster, Gregory Bateson, Keith Basso, Yehudi Cohen, Caroline Bledsoe, Emile Durkheim, Signithia Fordham, Clifford Geertz, Jules Henry, Dorothy Holland, Julianna Flinn, Hugh Mehan, Kathryn M. Borman, Margaret Sutton, Amy E. Fox, Jan Nespor, John Ogbu, Sherry Ortner, Laura Rival, Howard S. Becker, Professor Margaret Mead, James B.Greenberg, Shirley Brice Dr. Heath, Professor Donna Eder, Deborah Reed-Danahay, Carlos Velez-Ibáñez, Donna Eder, Margaret Mead, Bradley A. Levinson, Professor Raymond Williams, Howard Becker, Williams Lafollette Distinguished
Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 2000 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-0120-1, ISBN: 0-7425-0120-5

"At Home In Maintown homes, the construction of knowledge in the earliest preschool years depends in large part on labelling procedures and what- explanations. This pattern of linking old and new knowledge is reinforced in narrative tales which fictionalize the teller's events or recapitulate a story from a book. Thus for these children the bedtime story is simply an early link in a long chain of interrelated patterns of taking meani ..."






Terrestrial Transformations
A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature
by Thomas K. Park, James B. Greenberg
318 Pages, Published 2020
ISBN-13: 978-1-79360-547-4, ISBN: 1-79360-547-5

"As book reviews editor, Edward Liebow, for JPE's first decade, observes this juncture provides an opportunity for reflection, first on the experience of publishing book reviews in a born-digital publication; and second, on the topical and cultural ..."






Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance
Power, Ethics, and Social Capital across the Last Millennium
by James B. Greenberg, Thomas K. Park
331 Pages, Published 2017 by Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4579-2, ISBN: 1-4985-4579-3

"IRIN. “Mali: Fears over Privatising Cotton. Humanitarian News and Analysis,” UN office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Report August 15, 2009. http: www.irinnews.org-report.aspx (Accessed June 2, 2015). Isreal, Jonathan I. Dutch Primacy in World Trade 1586–1740. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Jacks , Philip and William Caferro. The Spinelli of Florence. Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family. University Park ..."






The Roots of Western Finance
Power, Ethics, and Social Capital in the Ancient World
by Thomas K. Park, James B. Greenberg
304 Pages, Published 2017 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4582-2, ISBN: 1-4985-4582-3

"While the text is from the Middle Kingdom the practice presumably antedates the text considerably. 44. Faulkner, Egyptian Book of the Dead Chapter 125, Plate 31 . ... remained servants of new appointees in the institution. Both types of servants were referred to collectively by the term djet which comprised all the working servants of an individual. How their freedoms and rights compared with those of the working classes in better k ..."






Roman Polanski(1st Edition)
A Retrospective
by James B. Greenberg, Roman Polanski
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Harry N. Abrams
ISBN-13: 978-1-4197-0721-6, ISBN: 1-4197-0721-3

"The story of Roman Polanski's career is checkered with sadness and scandal. Arguably the most controversial film director of our time, his strokes of genius on the screen enthral, move and entertain us--and despite the events of his personal life, his power as a filmmaker is indisputable. He is a man who fascinates and intrigues, and the epic of his life is the stuff of movies itself. He continues to produce some of the most powerful mo ..."






Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico
by James B. Greenberg, Anne Browning-Aiken, William L. Alexander, Thomas Weaver
352 Pages, Published 2012 by University Press Of Colorado
ISBN-13: 978-1-4571-1741-1, ISBN: 1-4571-1741-X

"James B. Greenberg, Anne Browning-Aiken, William L. Alexander, Thomas Weaver ... Carón de Grammot, Hubert 1995 Nuevos Actores y Formas de Representación Social en el Campo. In El Impacto Social de las ... De Teresa, Ana Paula, and Carlos Cortés 1996 Introducción: El Agro en México: Un Futuro Incierto después de las Reformas. In La Nueva ... Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Giddens ..."






Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico
by Thomas Weaver, James B. Greenberg, William L. Alexander, Anne Browning-Aiken
352 Pages, Published 2012 by University Press Of Colorado
ISBN-13: 978-1-60732-172-9, ISBN: 1-60732-172-6

"Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. Jamail, Milton H., and Scott J. Ullery 1979 Pollution of the San Pedro River: International Water Use Relations along the Sonoran Desert Borderlands. Paper 14. Tucson: Arid Lands Resource Information. Kamp, Dick 1999 Northeast Sonora Water Project: Summary of the First Phase. Bisbee, AZ: Border Ecology Project. Kelly, Mary, Arturo Solis, and George Kouros 2001 The Bo ..."






Reimagining Political Ecology
by Aletta Biersack, James B. Greenberg
440 Pages, Published 2006 by Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-8814-2, ISBN: 0-8223-8814-6

"Mario Siri Chiesa and Patricia Moctezuma-Hernández, 145–64. Mexicali, B.C.: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Moore, Donald S. 1998. ''Subaltern Struggles and the Politics of Place: Remapping Resistance in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands.'' Cultural Anthropology 13(3):344–81. Moore, Donald S., Anand Pandian, and Jake Kosek. 2003. ''Introduction: The Cultural Politics of RaceandNature: Terrains of Powerand Practice.'' InRace, Na ..."






Terrestrial Transformations
A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature
by James B. Greenberg, Thomas K. Park, Diane E. Austin, Mamadou Baro, Simon Batterbury
Paperback, Published 2022 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-79360-548-1, ISBN: 1-79360-548-3



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