Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introducing economic anthropology -- Changing economic anthropology -- 1 Production and what is produced -- Ponam fishing -- Colombian peasants -- Jamaican fishermen -- 2 Changing production -- Cottage industry -- Putting out -- Early factory production -- Modern factory production -- The purpose of production -- 3 Circulation, identity, relationship and order -- Identity and relationship -- Moka, peace and order -- Controlling circulation -- 4 Gifts and commodities Obligation, alienation, relationship -- Obligation -- Alienation -- Property and possession -- 5 Commercial circulation -- The old order -- Disembedding -- Institutional changes -- 6 Considering Christmas -- Christmas giving -- Gifts and commodities once more -- The spirit of Christmas past -- 7 Consumption and meaning -- Ordering consumption -- Communication about the self -- Communication about others -- 8 Consumption in context -- Consuming for social relations -- Consuming in social relations -- Consuming for gain -- Becoming consumers -- Afterword -- Further reading -- Classics What economic anthropologists do -- Topics and concepts in economic anthropology -- Journals -- References -- Index