One challenge faced by town centres is retail trade concentration in which market channels become vertically integrated and increasingly large retail facilities spread, often locating away from town centres. This paper examines the degree to which this has happened under both market and...

The collection of original contributions in this volume of Research in Economic Anthropology addresses two recurrent themes in economic anthropology. These are the process of economic development and the basis on which economic integration takes place. The development theme is divided between...

The introduction to this volume will be shorter than is usual for the Research in Economic Anthropology book series because of the time we had to spend during the past few months preparing for an editorial transition. The effort has paid off. Professor Donald Wood (Akita University, Japan) will...

It has long been realized that market-based development tends to impact Third World rural communities by increasing stratification between those who are able to take advantage of increasing opportunities and those who are less fortunate (for instance, Kottak, 1999 ). An extreme example of this...

Introduction / Norbert Dannhaeuser, Cynthia Werner -- Overseas contract labor, remittances, and household consumption : a case study from San Fernando City, the Philippines / Ty S. Matejowsky -- The footprint of the offshore oil industry on community institutions / Karen Coelho -- Women's work...