Cultural anthropology is primarily concerned with understanding other cultures. It is therefore about translation. It will therefore be extremely exciting for German readers that this introduction has been translated from Hungarian. General trends are reflected in this country, such as the...

Im politischen, medialen, planerischen und wissenschaftlichen Diskurs wird der Begriff "kultur" häufig benutzt, insbesondere wenn es um den Transformationsprozess hin zu einer nachhaltigen Mobilität geht. Aber so häufig wie der Begriff mittle rweile genutzt wird, so definitorisch unklar und...

The Northwest Hungarian village, Rajka has special geographical location: it is only fifteen kilometres from Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia. This settlement is an excellent example of the phenomenon of cross-border suburbanization which means the migration of the urban population from...

In our paper, we examine particular aspects of cross-border influence based on the data of the survey carried out in two Slovak and two Hungarian settlements along the border. Here is a summary of the results: • Easy accessibility is much more important than geographical proximity. • Easy...

The focus of the study is one of the frequently emerging topics of social science research: the investigation of metropolitan ethnic communities. The socio-political-medial-cultural changes of recent decades (globalization, mediatization, digitization) have completely transformed the phenomenon...

Trends in living standards during the Industrial Revolution is a core debate in economic history. Studies using anthropometric records from institutional sources have found downward trends in living standards during the first half of the nineteenth century. This paper contributes to this...

Based on almost 5.000 direct observations on National Identification Cards, this paper offers the first estimation of the evolution of average heights in urban Bolivia for the decades 1880s-1920s. The analysis focuses on men aged 19-50 years registered in the city of La Paz. Despite city's...

Based on almost 5.000 direct observations on National Identification Cards, this paper offers the first estimation of the evolution of average heights in urban Bolivia for the decades 1880s-1920s. The analysis focuses on men aged 19-50 years registered in the city of La Paz. Despite city's...

This paper reviews the socio-cultural, anthropological reasons for merchant success of Armenian immigrants to New Julfa in the seventeenth century. This includes the importance of entrepreneurial, anthropological studies, and cultural aspects on individual and social levels. The key enabler is...

Using an anthropological interpretation, this essay presents the Business Model as a myth that has been institutionalized by a collective group of stakeholders. The myth allows them to become coordinated, especially when their number increases. What brings them all together is shared values...

"Interest in anthropology and ethnography has been an on-going feature of organizational research and pedagogy, The Routledge Companion to Anthropology, Ethnography and Organization Studies provides a key reference text that examines these criteria and that pulls together the different ways in...

This book studies past economics from anthropological, archaeological, historical and sociological perspectives. By analyzing archeological and other evidence, it examines economic behavior and institutions in ancient societies. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, it critically discusses...

Chapter 1 - An Introduction to the Critique of Archaeological Economy (Reinhard Jung, Stefanos Gimatzidis) -- Chapter 2 - Writing the Deep History of Human Economy (Randall McGuire) -- Chapter 3 - Wealth, Women's Labor, and Forms of Value: Thinking From the Study of Ancestral Central America...

"Commodities of one type or other have been produced, transferred and consumed in the economic life of humanity through every epoch of its development and forms of sociocultural organization, but are pervasive in the varieties of capitalism dominating contemporary world economies. Even labor, a...

This paper reflects on the relationship between economic (quantitative) and anthropological (qualitative) approaches to the analysis of poverty in developing countries. Drawing on detailed evidence from Mozambique, we argue that different research approaches do not merely see the same poverty...

This paper reflects on the relationship between economic (quantitative) and anthropological (qualitative) approaches to the analysis of poverty in developing countries. Drawing on detailed evidence from Mozambique, we argue that different research approaches do not merely see the same poverty...

The refugee crisis which began in 2015 showed that Europe and the EU are not prepared for the challenges of the future. Several studies are also coming to the conclusion that climate change will have a huge impact on movements of migration from Africa to Europe. By the year 2050, approximately...

The paper analyzes the phenomenon of the “Jeans Generation” as a part of cultural memory in Georgian society, through the prism of subcultures and countercultures theories. It locates the analysis within the broader geopolitical settings of the late Cold War period in order to explain the...

Volume 40 of Research in Economic Anthropology explores current issues in national and international policy, cost and debt, business and capitalism, and economic theory and behavior specifically pertaining to Brazil. The underlying theme running through the collection is the steady encroachment...