Books - Donald C. Wood

Infrastructure, morality, food and clothing, and new developments in Latin America

Wood, Donald C.

Emerald (Bingley, UK)  2022.01 ISBN: 9781801174350

Volume 41 of REA presents eleven papers—all of which passed a rigorous peer review—that explore a wide range of topics of particular interest to economic anthropology. The volume begins with a joint anthropologist-economist co-authored paper that presents a novel approach to anthropological-economic infrastructural research in England, specifically London’s Thames Tideway Tunnel. The volume’s first section consists of four investigations into topics that are tied together—to varying degrees—by two common threads: the roles of money in social ties between people, and moral concerns regarding these and other roles and uses of money in society. The section covers commercial surrogate mothers in Russia, social welfare provision in Pakistan, the management of a communal fund within a school alumni association in South Korea, and a credit scheme’s impact on women in Nigeria. Part two of this volume contains three papers that focus on basic necessities of human life—food and clothing—examining a New Zealand food security initiative that rescues “waste” food, modern transformations of a pre-owned clothing market in Hamburg, Germany, and Muslim fashion retail business in the same country’s capital city, Berlin. Finally, the volume closes with a third section that fixes an anthropological lens on contemporary developments in Latin America, analyzing the larger fair trade movement and its particular manifestations and implications in Oaxaca, Mexico, the cost-effectiveness of the reintegration of ex-combatants in Colombia, and patron-client relations in Brazil and how these have been politically perceived and presented by domestic and foreign intellectuals and academics, respectively. It is notable that although the final section of this volume might appear to be constrained by geographic concentration, it strives to connect that vast and heterogenous region into the larger world with very holistic and extensive approaches.

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Anthropological Enquiries into Policy, Debt, Business and Capitalism

Wood, Donald C.

Emerald Publishing, Ltd.  2020.05 ISBN: 1839096594

Individual and Social Adaptions to Human Vulnerability.

Donald C. Wood

Emerald  2018.12 ISBN: 9781787691766

Anthropological Considerations of Production, Exchange, Vending and Tourism in Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Americas.

Donald C. Wood

Emerald  2017.11 ISBN: 9781787431959

The Economics of Ecology, Exchange and Adaptation: Anthropological Explorations.

Donald C. Wood

Emerald  2016.11 ISBN: 9781786352286

And if Strangers Come to Supper: A Novel

Donald C. Wood

Donald C. Wood  2015.11 ISBN: 9781508814474

Climate Change, Culture, and Economics: Anthropological Investigations.

Donald C. Wood

Emerald  2015.11 ISBN: 9781785603617

Production, Consumption, Business and the Economy: Structural Ideals and Moral Realities.

Donald C. Wood

Emerald  2014.11 ISBN: 9781784410568

Ogata-mura: Sowing Dissent and Reclaiming Identity in a Japanese Farming Village

Donald C. Wood

Berghahn Books  2012.10 ISBN: 9780857455246

Following the Second World War, a massive land reclamation project to boost Japan’s rice production capacity led to the transformation of the shallow lagoon of Hachirōgata in Akita Prefecture into a seventeen-thousand hectare expanse of farmland. In 1964, the village of Ogata-mura was founded on the empoldered land inside the lagoon and nearly six hundred pioneers from across the country were brought to settle there. The village was to be a model of a new breed of highly mechanized, efficient rice agriculture; however, the village’s purpose was jeopardized when the demand for rice fell, and the goal of creating an egalitarian farming community was threatened as individual entrepreneurialism took root and as the settlers became divided into political factions that to this day continue struggle for control of the village. Based on seventeen years of research, this book explores the process of Ogata-mura’s development from the planning stages to the present. An intensive ethnographic study of the relationship between land reclamation, agriculture, and politics in regional Japan, it traces the internal social effects of the village’s economic transformations while addressing the implications of national policy at the municipal and regional levels.

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

Ty Matejowsky and Donald C. Wood

Emerald  2012.10

The Economics of Religion: Anthropological Approaches

Lionel Obadia and Donald C. Wood

Emerald  2011.10 ISBN: 9781780522289

The Economics of Religion explores the new paradigms of religious economics and economies of religion under the scope of transdisciplinary and international perspectives. It examines and appraises some of the recent theoretical developments and methodological innovations in religious and social sciences. This volume offers the chance to extend the analysis of religious behaviours by means of conceptual and methodological models of economics. It goes far beyond the classical economy and religion debate, and suggests not only theoretical but also epistemological changes in the study of religion: individual rationality and rational choice, market theory, demand and supply theory, branding and commodification of religion, believers consumer habits, churches competitive strategies, for example. Of course, these are not exempt from criticism, which this volume also addresses. These detailed and localized case-studies range from experimental to ethnographic methods, psychological to cultural aspects of believing and practising cults in the scope of economics of religion. Geographical areas covered include Nigeria, Bolivia, Italy, Mexico, France, Korea, Nepal and Tonga.

Japan's Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century: Contemporary Responses to Depopulation and Socioeconomic Decline

Peter Matanle, Anthony Rausch, and the Shrinking Regions Research Group

Cambria Press  2011.08 ISBN: 9781604977585

Japan's population is shrinking. Based on current trends, it will decline by an average of half a million people per year for the next forty years. The country is also getting older and the ratio of dependants to active workers is expected to approach 1:1 by around 2030. These two interdependent processes will bring great changes to Japan in the coming decades. In the twenty-first century, a historic turnaround in global demographic trends will occur. Europe and East Asia are especially vulnerable to demographic shrinkage. Germany is already shrinking, as is Russia. South Korea will begin to shrink soon and, importantly, so will China from around 2035. Overall, this is good news, but it brings with it worldwide changes to ways of living and working. Japan's rural areas have been shrinking for decades. Entire villages have vanished; some have even been "sold." Thousands of municipalities have been judged "non-viable" and merged. Thousands more private and public enterprises have collapsed, leaving colossal debts, while hundreds of thousands of older people live miserable lives in neighbourless communities. Rural shrinkage has been the unseen corollary of Japan's extraordinarily dynamic twentieth century urban expansion; indeed, Japan's postwar economic miracle has been achieved at the expense of rural retreat. Potentially disastrous is the negative-sum game that national depopulation triggers, as one community's gain becomes another's loss. Japan's Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century reveals how communities are responding positively to these emerging circumstances, delivering a message of hope and vitality to shrinking regions worldwide. Setting Japan alongside Europe, and with an epilogue describing the Tōhoku earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown of 11 March 2011, the book offers policy makers and practitioners up to date advice for community revival born of extensive collaborative fieldwork across the whole Japanese archipelago. Japan's Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century brings together the work of 18 international scholars to present the first comprehensive study of regional shrinkage under Japan's national depopulation. Interspersed throughout with numerous illustrations, the book reveals a richly textured examination of shrinkage at the local level, from which emerges the overall story of Japan's depopulation and its place within the trajectory of world development. This will be an important source for all social science collections, as well as for researchers, policy makers, students, and practitioners with interests in regional development, demography, East Asia, and post-industrial change.

Economic Action in Theory and Practice: Anthropological Investigations

Donald C. Wood

Emerald  2010.09 ISBN: 9780857241177

This volume contains 14 original chapters focusing on various aspects of economic organization and behaviour, mostly based on empirical fieldwork conducted by the authors themselves. It is a well-balanced collection of chapters on economic issues studied anthropologically, not only in its geographical and theoretical focus but also in showcasing work by established and emerging researchers. "Chapters on Africa" take a close look at urban food provisioning in Cameroon and an investigation into entrepreneurial activities in the rapidly-changing economy of Cairo. Other chapters examine places and cultures in Central Asia - property rights and state power in Kazakhstan, and animal markets in Kashgar, Western China. The buying and selling activities of ethnic groups within larger societies such as Latin Americans in the USA and Gabor Roma in Romania are highlighted. Concerning North America are chapters on the trans-Atlantic (and global) art market, and on oil drilling in Canada, while in Latin America, income disparities and inequalities in Brazil, development in Colombia, and kin-like compadrazgo networks in Mexico are analyzed. Historical Western Europe and pre-historical Ecuador are also covered.

Economic Development, Integration, and Morality in Asia and the Americas

Donald C. Wood

Emerald  2009.10 ISBN: 9781848555426

This 29th volume in the "Research in Economic Anthropology" series explores economic development, integration, and morality in economic transactions in Asia and the Americas through 14 original chapters based on ethnographic evidence collected by the authors. Under development, chapters look at, amongst others, underground gambling behavior in China in light of that country's current economic boom, recent retail store expansion and local socioeconomic effects in rural Mexico, and also women's economic activities as part of the household economy in Oaxaca, Mexico. As for economic integration, authors investigate monetization in the historical and archaeological records of the Angkorian Empire, transnational economic links between coffee producers in Costa Rica and Panama and concurrent socio-economic effects at the production sites. Finally, under the moral, chapters examine the culture of restaurant tipping in North America, the pre-school education market in northern Japan against a backdrop of scarcity of children, narrative and social pressure in a North American market environment, and the role of social capital in gender-specific credit association membership in Puebla, Mexico.

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J.H. Cohen, D.E. Crews, R. Allison, L. Cronk, D.C. Wood, S. Kirkpatrick-Smith and J. Stewart

Pearson Custom Publishing  2009.09

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Hidden Hands in the Market: Ethnographies of Fair Trade, Ethical Consumption, and Corporate Social Responsibility

G. DeNeve, P. Luetchford, J. Pratt, D.C. Wood

Emerald  2008.10 ISBN: 9781848550582

The Economics of Health and Wellness: Anthropological Perspectives

Donald C. Wood

Elsevier  2008.01 ISBN: 9780762314218

This 26th volume in the Research in Economic Anthropology series differs in two main ways from all those that have come before. For one, it is the first REA volume to focus exclusively on the issue of health. In addition, it is not as concerned overall with economic or social theory, or with economic reasoning and action, as other volumes have been. Rather, it concentrates on the identification and analysis of important economic factors in the production of health and wellness. The volume consists of ten original anthropological papers that explore the general theme of the economics of health and wellness in a variety of ways. Some of these papers are more strongly ethnographic in nature, relying wholly on qualitative data derived from participant-observer methods at which ethnographers excel. Other papers successfully blend such information with quantitative data drawn from surveys, questionnaires, and even from biological samples. All papers, however, are grounded in empirical methods and based on data drawn from the personal investigations of the authors. Subjects and geographic areas represented in the volume are: 1) Lakota residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, USA, 2) rural people of Bangladesh, 3) mental health care facilities and systems in Texas, USA, 4) unsuccessful rural-urban migrants in Botswana, Southern Africa, 5) loggers in British Columbia, Canada, 6) municipal bus drivers in San Francisco, California, 7) poor residents of Puebla, Mexico, 8) slum dwellers of Lima, Peru, 9) female victims of domestic abuse in Northern Vietnam, and 10) followers of Tibetan Buddhism in France.

Choice in Economic Contexts: Ethnographic and Theoretical Enquiries

Donald C. Wood

Elsevier  2007.07 ISBN: 0762313757

This 25th volume in the Research in Economic Anthropology series contains 12 original papers – nine empirical ethnographic studies and three theoretical essays – all linked by a common concern with economic choice in various social and cultural situations, and authored by researchers in anthropology, economics, and sociology. The ethnographic studies present data collected in Mexico, Paraguay, Columbia, Greece, Morocco, Egypt, Thailand, Taiwan, and Japan. Part I of the volume focuses on work migration, a theme that has received much attention of late. Papers in Part II are concerned with various manifestations of markets and market forces in everyday life, and associated individual, group, or corporate action. Part III consists of studies on economic development, market expansion, and community-wide impacts in Latin America. Finally, papers in Part IV share a common concern with the works of noted economic historian Karl Polanyi, which have influenced researchers in economic anthropology, economics, and sociology in many different ways.

Health, money, commerce, and wealth : anthropological perspectives

Wood Donald C., Swamy Raja

Emerald  2024 ISBN: 9781835490341

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