Exploring Commodities; An Anthropologist on the Trails of Malinowski and Traven in Mexico
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Exploring Commodities; An Anthropologist on the Trails of Malinowski and Traven in Mexico


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Commodities of one type or other have been produced, transferred and consumed in the economic life of humanity through every epoch of its development and forms of sociocultural organization, but are pervasive in the varieties of capitalism dominating contemporary world economies. Even labor, a necessary element in all forms of commodity production, has itself been commoditized. Embodying three kinds of potentially realizable value - use, exchange, and symbolic - commodities reflect and affect various facets of humanity's sociocultural life. They have been investigated by knowledge producers ranging from Aristotle and Ibn Khaldun through Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx down to a whole host of twentieth-century economists and others like the anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski, and the storyteller, B. Traven.

In this book noted economic anthropologist Scott Cook draws on many decades of fieldwork in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Tamaulipas to take on the challenge of crafting an academic memoir designed to provide insights into the role of commodities in his own life and times and especially in his anthropological career. He undertakes this project in conjunction with a running interpretation of the contrasting approaches of Malinowski and Traven to the topic of commodity production and exchange in Mexico.


About the Author:

After completing undergraduate studies at the University of Texas and American University (BA Economics, 1959), Scott Cook did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin (economics), the University of Puerto Rico, and completed his doctoral studies at the University of Pittsburgh in 1968. Subsequently, he served on the faculty at Michigan State University (1968-1971), and at the University of Connecticut (1971-1997) where he is currently a Professor emeritus. At UConn he also directed the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (1987-1992) and the Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Institute (1996-2000). His most recent book is Land, Livelihood, and Civility in Southern Mexico (2014). Several earlier books, including Understanding Commodity Cultures (2004) and many journal articles dating back to the 1960s address various themes in economic anthropology, peasant-artisan studies, Mexican studies, and border studies, and draw upon extensive fieldwork in Oaxaca, Mexico and the Texas-Mexico border.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781800794016
  • Publisher: NBN INTERNATIONAL
  • Publisher Imprint: Nbn International
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: An Anthropologist on the Trails of Malinowski and Traven in Mexico
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1800794010
  • Publisher Date: 04 Jun 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 244
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 394 gr


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