Scholarly field that attempts to explain human economic behavior in its widest historic, geographic and cultural scope

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Golden ages, dark ages : imagining the past in anthropology and history / edited by Jay O'Brien and William Roseberry.

The good life : aspiration, dignity, and the anthropology of wellbeing / Edward F. Fischer.

The Social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective / edited by Arjun Appadurai.

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Economic anthropology

Works from the collections

Golden ages, dark ages : imagining the past in anthropology and history / edited by Jay O'Brien and William Roseberry.

The good life : aspiration, dignity, and the anthropology of wellbeing / Edward F. Fischer.

The Social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective / edited by Arjun Appadurai.