Bøger af Michael Chibnik

Michael Chibnik was editor-in-chief of American Anthropologist for four years. Scholarship, Money, and Prose provides detailed ethnographic and historical descriptions of the operations of the journal as well as engaging anecdotes of his experiences. The book offers a window onto the past, present, and future of scholarly publishing.

Examines the household economies, cultural ecology, grassroots political organizations of riberei??os living in three floodplain villages near Iquitos, Peru. Michael Chibnik describes the villagers' remarkable history, their participation in misconceived development programs, and their longstanding conflicts with regional elites.

This book presents the first extended critique of rational choice theory from an anthropological perspective.

The first in-depth look at the international trade in Oaxacan wood carvings, including their history, production, marketing, and cultural representations.