Sociology and Anthropology of Economic Life The Moral Embedding of Economic Action

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The MOral Embedding of Economic Action .........1 Reading the Ethnographic record: Conceptual and Methodological Issues ........31 Class structure in an Agrarian society ..........37 MIsconceiving the grain heap: A critique of the concept of the indian jajmani system .........56 Knowing about rural Economic Change ................81 2. Nature Technology, and environment .......111 Indigenous knowledges..........115 The local politics of Groundwater in NOrth gujarat ............136 Perspectives on Common Encroachment .......162 3. Sentiments, values, and Afects.........187 On the moral Perils of Exchange ........216 Women`s Work: Quilt making and Gift Giving ..............234 On Living in the Kalyug..........254 Newcomers to the World of Goods: Consumption among the muria Gonds ..........274