%0 Book Section %B Theory in economic anthropology %D 2002 %T Economic Transfers and Exchanges: Concepts for describing allocations %A Hunt, Robert C. %E Ensminger, Jean %C Walnut Creek, CA %I AltaMira Press %K Economic anthropology %L main GN448ANTH GN448SHLD %P 105-118 %Z edited by Jean Ensmingerill., maps ; 24 cm"Published in cooperaation with the Society for Economic Anthropology."Theory in economic anthropology at the turn of the century -- Property rights and incentives for agricultural growth: women farmers' crop control and their use of agricultural inputs -- Transaction cost economics: accomplishments, problems, and possibilities -- Experimental economics: a powerful new method for theory testing in anthropology -- Commodity flows and the evolution of complex societies -- Economic transfers and exchanges: concepts for describing allocations -- Polanyi and the definition of capitalism -- Chayanov and theory in economic anthropology -- Space, place, and economic anthropology: locating potters in a Sri Lankan landscape -- Indians, markets, and transnational studies in Mesoamerican anthropology: predicaments and opportunities -- Transcending the formal/informal distinction: commercial relations in Africa and Russia in the post-1989 world -- Commmodity chains and the international secondhand clothing trade: Salaula and the work of consumption in Zambia -- When good theories go bad: theory in economic anthropology and consumer research -- Decision making, cultural transmission, and adaptation in economic anthropology %@ 0759102058 (cloth alk. p