The current study highlights the significance of national culture in advocating sustainable development, aligning with the goals outlined in the 2030 Agenda. It draws upon theories from various perspectives, including Classical Marxism, System Justification, Weber and the Ethic of Protestantism,...

This paper explores the effects of several cultural values, attitudes, and the like, on some of the main dimensions of economic performance. It shows a weak correlation between continental countries' relative endowment of some cultural attributes and the relative performance of their national...

Examining modern economic anthropology explores how economic activities are influenced by cultural values, social relationships, and historical contexts across different societies. It examines both traditional and modern systems of exchange, production, and consumption to understand the...

Within the field of economics, despite being widespread, African traditional religions tend to be perceived as unimportant and ignored when studying economic decision-making. This study tests whether this presumption is correct. Using daily data on business decisions and performance of beer...

Trends in Ethnography have changed over the years, and just as in the initial years, fieldwork and the Participant Observation method replaced armchair ethnography, shorter-duration in locales close to the Ethnographer’s residence have come into vogue. Ethnographic studies have traditionally...

Cultural anthropology shows a significant interest in the study of morality and ethics with its aim to understand the local contexts and human narratives. Actions and practices pertaining to the domain of morality create not only questions for cultural anthropologists to consider but also...

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Russian Empire / Russia Jerome Dumetz & Konstantin Krotov -- Chapter 2. Ottoman Empire / Turkey Emin Akcaoglu -- Chapter 3. United Kingdom Jakub Wondreys -- Chapter 4. France Jerome Dumetz- Chapter 5. Germany Rainer Wehner -- Chapter 6. Austro-Hungarian Empire Hannes...

We discuss a wide range of measures of social heterogeneity, both theoretically and empirically. In our framework, individuals who differ from each other either in terms of their identity traits or of their cultural values experience antagonism toward each other. Depending on the type of...

This study reviews the culture and institutions of Confucianism and explores their implications for the trajectory of China's historical development. We trace the origins and evolution of the core elements of Confucianism and synthesize research on its relationship to clan culture, state...

In this Handbook chapter, I examine how integrating ethnographic and folklore records has shaped research on culture and economics in the 21st century. Advances in text analysis techniques and the incorporation of historical and satellite data have transformed the field. I explore how George...

"Viewed through an anthropological lens, Automobili Lamborghini, the renowned Italian factory of super cars, presents a compelling case study. As an ethnography spanning three years, the book focuses on the different perspectives of the managers and the workers and the effects of the...

"India is developing as a global gold powerhouse. Yet its intricate web of trade and transformations remains largely overlooked in scholarly research. This book delves into the economic significance and cultural currency of gold in India. Drawing on insights from economic sociology, political...

"This Encyclopedia presents insights into societal change through the lens of economic anthropology. Interdisciplinary in scope, it outlines emerging themes in the field and explicitly connects theoretical debates to in-depth empirical evidence. Experts in the field provide ethnographic examples...

Degrowth means equitably downscaling wealthy societies’ throughputs of materials and energy. It entails reorganizing the economy to meet people’s needs regardless of what happens with GDP. The literature on degrowth, which emerged from the Francophone décroissance school, brings together...

"It seems clear that many formerly stable societies in wealthy developed countries appear to be falling into an apparent state of 'permacrisis' accompanied by an increasingly angry and irrational social and political culture that is undermining the peace and stability of our societies and...

Klappentext: "Commodities provide a lens through which local and global histories can be understood and written. The study of commodities history follows these goods as they make their way from land and water through processing and trade to eventual consumption. It is a fast-developing field...

Evolutionary accounts assert that while diversity may lower subjective well-being (SWB) by creating an evolutionary mismatch between evolved psychological tendencies and the current social environment, human societies can adapt to diversity via intergroup contact under appropriate conditions....

"Roman merchants, artisans, and service providers faced substantial prejudice. Contemporary authors labeled them greedy, while the man on the street accused merchants of lying and cheating. Legally and socially, merchants were kept at arm's length from respectable society. Yet merchants were...

International strategy scholars continue to use formulations of national culture to predict firms’ major choices about products and markets and the success of these choices within different nations and across their borders. When studying more than a handful of countries, scholars predominantly...

In this chapter we present and seek to justify two sets of questions and arguments: What can an approach informed by interdisciplinary perspectives including from anthropology contribute to the debate on whether protecting traditional knowledge (TK) as intellectual property is appropriate or can...

Continuous economic growth has been raised as one of three grand taboos of the CSR discourse and remains a fundamental neglect to this day. This neglect represents not only a fundamental weakness of scholarly pursuits within CSR, but also contains existential consequences for human and non-human...