Details

Subject(s)

• Agriculture—Economic aspects—Panama—Boquerón River Region [Browse]
• Sugar growing—Panama—Boquerón River Region [Browse]
• Los Boguerones Region (Panama)—Rural conditions [Browse]

Series

• Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography ; I. [More in this series]
• Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography. South America ; I [More in this series]

Summary note

• Bridging a gap between macro- and micro- viewpoints, this work shows the ways in which an economy is socially & historically determined. Subsistence is shown to be not only a form of agriculture but a determinant economic organisation.
• Bridging a gap between macro- and micro- viewpoints, the work shows the ways in which an economy is socially and historically determined. Subsistence is shown to be not only a form of agriculture but a determinant economic organisation and particular attention is paid to the problem of understanding patterns of distribution and the constitution of the surplus in the peasant economy. First published in 1978. Bridging a gap between macro- and micro- viewpoints, the work shows the ways in which an economy is socially and historically determined. Subsistence is shown to be not only a form of agriculture but a determinant economic organisation and particular attention is paid to the problem of understanding patterns of distribution and the constitution of the surplus in the peasant economy. First published in 1978.

Notes

First published in 1978 by Routlege & Kegan Paul.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 12, 2013).

Language note

English

Contents

1. Anthropological economics and a small village 2. An economy evolves 3. Household production: subsistence and surplus 4. The production process 5. Organizing a labour force 6. The seeds of a transformation 7. Horizons and reflections

ISBN

• 1-315-01777-6
• 1-136-54389-9

OCLC

• 862048965
• 862080990

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