Thomas Widlok

Anthropology and the Economy of Sharing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the economy of sharing in a variety of social and political contexts around the world. Widlok advocates a refreshingly broad comparative approach to our understanding of sharing, with a range of material from hunter-gatherer ethnography alongside empirical illustrations from globalized society. Breaking new ground in this key topic, he also demonstrates that sharing is distinct from gift-giving, exchange and reciprocity, dominant themes in economic anthropology, and suggests that a new focus on sharing will have significant repercussions for anthropological theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9781138945548
• ISBN-10: 1138945544
• Artikelnr.: 45310438

Autorenporträt

Thomas Widlok is Professor for African Studies and Chair for the Cultural Anthropology of Africa at the University of Cologne, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Sharing - an alternative
1. This is not a gift
2. Sharing the prey: Evolutionary assumptions
3. The ethnography of sharing demand
4. The things we share
5. It's a shareholder's world
6. Introducing the sharing economy
7. The time to share
Conclusions: The limits of sharing and the finite self