Economic anthropology

A 600-850 word critical response comparing Alan Klima's and Peter Geschiere's frameworks for the encounter between high relationship and high market economies, in Gudeman's terms. This guide separates the framework comparison from the ethnographic one, and explains why both authors reject the tradition-versus-modernity reading most responses reach for.

Everything here follows from one claim: there is no free gift. Once you see that a gift creates an obligation, the Kula, the critique of Homo economicus and the substantivist position all fall into line.