Society for economic anthropology
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The Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) is a group of anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, geographers and other scholars interested in the connections between economics and social life. Its members take a variety of approaches to economics: some have a substantivist
perspective, while others are interested in the new institutional economics
. Every year the SEA holds a spring meeting focused on a specific topic in economic anthropology
. A volume of articles is also produced annually, based on the meeting.
The society was founded in 1980. Harold K. Schneider
served as the first president, from 1980 until 1982.
Substantivism
Substantivism is a position, first proposed by Karl Polanyi in his work The Great Transformation, which argues that the term 'economics' has two meanings...
perspective, while others are interested in the new institutional economics
New institutional economics
New institutional economics is an economic perspective that attempts to extend economics by focusing on the social and legal norms and rules that underlie economic activity.-Overview:...
. Every year the SEA holds a spring meeting focused on a specific topic in economic anthropology
Economic anthropology
Economic anthropology is a scholarly field that attempts to explain human economic behavior using the tools of both economics and anthropology. It is practiced by anthropologists and has a complex relationship with economics...
. A volume of articles is also produced annually, based on the meeting.
The society was founded in 1980. Harold K. Schneider
Harold K. Schneider
Harold K. Schneider , a seminal figure in economic anthropology, was born in 1925, in Aberdeen, South Dakota. He attended elementary and secondary school in St. Paul, Minnesota, and did his undergraduate work at Macalester College and Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, receiving a bachelor's...
served as the first president, from 1980 until 1982.
Topics of recent spring meetings
- 2010 - Contested Economies: Global Tourism and Cultural Heritage. University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
- 2009 - Weaving Across Time and Space: The Political Economy of Textiles. University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
- 2008 - Cooperation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
- 2007 - The Political Economy of Hazards and Disasters, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina.
- 2006 – Economics and Morality. California State University, Channel Islands, Ventural California.
- 2005 - Economies and the Transformation of Landscape. Darthmouth College. Hanover, New Hampshire.
- 2004 - Fast Food - Slow Food: Social and Economic Contexts of Food and Food Systems,Decatur, Georgia
- 2003 - Migration and Economy, Monterrey, Mexico
- 2002 - Valuables, Goods, Wealth and Money, Toronto, Canada
- 2001 - Labor, Milwaukee, WI
- 2000 - Gender in Economic Life, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
- 1999 - Development Beyond the 20th Century: A Critical Discussion in Economic Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
- 1998 - Theory in Economic Anthropology, Chicago, Illinois
Titles of recent volumes
- Vol. 25: Economies and the Transformation of Landscape. Lisa Cliggett and Chris Poole, eds. In Progress.
- Vol. 24: Fast-Food, Slow-Food. Rick Wilk, ed. 2007
- Vol. 23: Labor in Cross-Cultural Perspective. (Paul Durrenberger and Judith Marti, eds.) Alta Mira 2006.
- Vol. 22: Migration and Economy: Global and Local Dynamics. Lillian Trager, ed. Alta Mira 2005.