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  • Virginia Woolf

    by James Acheson ...
    Series series New Casebooks
    This collection of original essays on Virginia Woolf by leading scholars in the field opens up new debates on the work of one of the foremost modernists of the 20th century.The collection also looks at some of Woolf's own essays, discussing her theory of fiction and devotion to 'stream of consciousness' writing. Its thirteen contributors place this discussion of Woolf's artistic theory and ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • John Fowles

    by James Acheson ...
    Series series New Casebooks
    This vibrant collection of original essays sheds new light on all of Fowles' writings, with a special focus on The French Lieutenant's Woman as the most widely studied of Fowles' works. The impressive cast of contributors offers an outstanding range of expertise on Fowles, providing fresh reassessments and new perspectives. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Cooperation in Economy and Society

    by James Acheson, Matthew Bird, Gracia Clark, Bruce Dahlin, Malcolm Dow, E Anthon Eff, Katrina T. Greene, Julie Hogeland, Carolyn Lesorogol, Daniel Mazeau, Kathleen Millar, Rahul Oka, Benjamin Porter, Ronald Rich, Agustín Fuentes, Scott R. Hutson ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings. Cooperation is examined in situations of market exchange, local and long-distance reciprocity, hierarchical relations, common property and commons access, and cooperatives. Not all of these analyses show stable and long-term results of successful cooperation. The ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • Capturing the Commons

    Devising Institutions to Manage the Maine Lobster Industry

    by James M. Acheson ...
    One of the most pressing concerns of environmentalists and policy makers is the overexploitation of natural resources. Efforts to regulate such resources are too often undermined by the people whose livelihoods depend on their use. One of the great challenges for wildlife managers in the twenty-first century is learning to create the conditions under which people will erect effective and workable ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Question of the Commons

    The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources

    Edited by Bonnie J. McCay, James M. Acheson ...
    Series series Arizona Studies in Human Ecology
    This collection of eighteen original essays evaluates the use and misuse of common-property resources, taking as its starting point ecologist Garret Hardin's assertion in "The Tragedy of the Commons" that common property is doomed to overexploitation in any society. This book represents the first cross-cultural test of Hardin's argument and argues that, while tragedies of the commons do occur ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Contemporary British Novel Since 2000

    Edited by James Acheson ...

    $31.99 USD

  • Theory in Economic Anthropology

    by Edwins Laban Gwako, James M. Acheson, Timothy Earle, Robert C. Hunt, Duran Bell, E. Paul Durrenberger, Jeffrey H. Cohen, Elena Obukhova, Karen Tranberg Hansen, Richard Wilk, Joseph Henrich, Deborah Winslow ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    This new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology examines the unique contributions of anthropologists to general economic theory. Editor Jean Ensminger and other contributors challenge our understanding of human economies in the expanding global systems of interaction, with models and analyses from cross-cultural research. They examine a broad range of theoretical concerns from the new ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Governing the Commons

    The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

    by Elinor Ostrom ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Environment in Anthropology, Second Edition

    A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living

    Edited by Nora Haenn, Allison Harnish, Richard Wilk ...
    Presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of viewThe Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this text connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, providing readers with a strong intellectual foundation as well ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Reimagining Political Ecology

    by Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau, Michael R. Dove ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    Reimagining Political Ecology is a state-of-the-art collection of ethnographies grounded in political ecology. When political ecology first emerged as a distinct field in the early 1970s, it was rooted in the neo-Marxism of world system theory. This collection showcases second-generation political ecology, which retains the Marxist interest in capitalism as a global structure but which is also ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and the Prehistoric Economies of Latin America

    by Donald C. Wood ...
    Series Book 32 - Research in Economic Anthropology
    Volume 32 of REA continues the series' on-going presentation of new and highly engaging anthropological research. Chapters contained herein reflect the diverse range of broad based and localized topics economic anthropologists currently explore from various critical perspectives. Spanning deep history and present day economic processes, the contributions to this volume are subdivided into three ... Read more

    $147.99 USD

  • Anthropology and Climate Change

    From Encounters to Actions

    Edited by Susan A Crate, Mark Nuttall ...
    The first book to comprehensively assess anthropology’s engagement with climate change, this pioneering volume both maps out exciting trajectories for research and issues a call to action. Chapters in part one are systematic research reviews, covering the relationship between culture and climate from prehistoric times to the present; changing anthropological discourse on climate and environment; ... Read more

    $64.99 USD