The variations
in different economic formations, including gifts, barter, reciprocity,
commodities, special purpose and general markets. The embedded and
dis-embedded market economies and the theories of the transition to
capitalism.
Hann,
chapter 7; Sahlins, chs. 4-6
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Mauss, M., The Gift (reprinted 1974)
Gregory, C., Gifts and Commodities (1982)
Dalton, George, ‘Primitive Money’, American Anthropologist
(1965), vol.67, reprinted in Dalton
Drucker, Philip, ‘The Potlatch’ from Philip Drucker, Cultures
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