Author: James G. Carrier

James G. Carrier has done research and written on aspects of economy in Papua New Guinea, the United States and the United Kingdom. His publications include Wage, Trade and Exchange in Melanesia (University of California Press, 1989), Gifts and Commodities: Exchange and Western Capitlism since 1700 (Routledge, 1995), and the edited volumes Meanings of the Market (Berg, 1997) and Anthropologies of Class (with Don Kalb, Cambridge, 2015). He has also edited volumes that have addressed aspects of anthropology more broadly: Occidentalism (Oxford, 1995), A Handbook of Economic Anthropology (Edward Elgar, revised edition 2012) and The Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology (with Deborah Gewertz, Bloomsbury, 2013).

James G. Carrier

James G. Carrier has done research and written on aspects of economy in Papua New Guinea, the United States and the United Kingdom. His publications include Wage, Trade and Exchange in Melanesia (University of California Press, 1989), Gifts and Commodities: Exchange and Western Capitlism since 1700 (Routledge, 1995), and the edited volumes Meanings of the Market (Berg, 1997) and Anthropologies of Class (with Don Kalb, Cambridge, 2015). He has also edited volumes that have addressed aspects of anthropology more broadly: Occidentalism (Oxford, 1995), A Handbook of Economic Anthropology (Edward Elgar, revised edition 2012) and The Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology (with Deborah Gewertz, Bloomsbury, 2013).

Asking Gramsci’s question crisis

August, 2015 / By James G. Carrier

Some object to the word ‘crisis’. However, it is useful for describing the sense that what seemed to be an […]