期刊名称：Economic Sociology : the European Electronic Newsletter
印刷版ISSN：1871-3351
出版年度：2008
卷号：9
期号：2
出版社：Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
摘要：The excellent short survey of economic anthropology given (in the previous issue of this Newsletter) by Aspers, Darr and Kohl was nicely complemented by the interview with Keith Hart which followed. As Hart mentioned, he and I are currently working together on a couple of projects, one a collection of essays focused on the work of Karl Polanyi (to be published by Cambridge University Press) and the other a textbook for Polity Press outlining the history of economic anthropology (both certain to supersede all rival volumes noted by Aspers, Darr and Kohl!). Although my perspectives have been formed by fieldwork in socialist and postsocialist Eurasia rather than Africa and the Caribbean, collaboration with Keith Hart is very easy because we gen-erally see eye to eye on the important issues. One of my goals at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle is to promote a countercurrent to economists’ inter-pretations of the Second World’s transition that might match the impact and elegance of Hart’s theorization of the concept of the informal economy, which originated as a counter to dominant economics models of the Third World (see Hann 2006, 2007). Here my more modest goal is to use the space allotted to me to offer a few comments on the overview by Aspers, Darr and Kohl, with a few linked suggestions for further reading.
