Introduction: the porous boundaries of a discipline

Cristina Grasseni, Erik Bähre, Douglas R. Holmes and Coco Kanters

A chapter in Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology, 2025, pp 1-5 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: For much of the 20th century, theoretical developments in economic anthropology could be placed within specific debates and related concepts. Over the past decades, the landscape of economic anthropology has changed to the extent that we need to reconsider what could be the boundaries of the discipline. This encyclopedia is, therefore, in some ways unusual. Its aim is to map lines of innovative development in economic anthropology that are open to a new scholarly generation. Without ignoring the history of economic anthropology, it sheds new light on the development of the discipline by putting emerging themes in economic anthropology at the center of the volume and by asking authors to explicitly draw connections between their key topics and the empirical evidence that they have recently collected.

Keywords: Economic anthropology; Discipline; Theory; Ethnography; Anthropology of work; Political ecology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035312566
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