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Beschreibung
This book is concerned with how people respond to unpredictable variation in environmental and economic conditions (risk) and lack of information (uncertainty) about those risks. The papers focus on tribal and peasant societies. These societies lack many of the formal institutions that we, in the industrialized West, rely on to buffer us against unpredictable resource fluctuations. As the papers in this volume show, people in these societies are directly and profoundly affected by such risks. The contributors to this volume are primarily ecological and economic anthropologists who have in common a familiarity with both the formal theory of behavioral ecology and/or economics and the anthropological literature on tribal and peasant societies.
This book is concerned with how people respond to unpredictable variation in environmental and economic conditions (risk) and lack of information (uncertainty) about those risks. The papers focus on tribal and peasant societies. These societies lack many of the formal institutions that we, in the industrialized West, rely on to buffer us against unpredictable resource fluctuations. As the papers in this volume show, people in these societies are directly and profoundly affected by such risks. The contributors to this volume are primarily ecological and economic anthropologists who have in common a familiarity with both the formal theory of behavioral ecology and/or economics and the anthropological literature on tribal and peasant societies.
Zusammenfassung
ELIZABETH CASHDAN, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Introduction Part I Ecological and Economic Approaches Part II Risk and Subsistence Part III Risk and Markets
Details
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780367301576
ISBN-10: 0367301571
Sprache: Englisch
Autor: Cashdan, Elizabeth
Hersteller: Routledge
Taylor & Francis
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstr. 24, D-80331 München, gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com
Maße: 18 x 148 x 233 mm
Von/Mit: Elizabeth Cashdan
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2021
Gewicht: 0,508 kg
Artikel-ID: 133323815