Publications 16 November 2006
The persuasive power of money (2006) Near to the published version of 'If money talks, what langauage does it speak' (see under Papers). Much revised and expanded, the latest stage of my Talmudic journey into the mind of Money (aka the God of capitalism).
Bureaucratic Form and the Informal Economy (2005) Chapter in forthcoming book Linking the Formal and Informal Economy: Concepts and Policies Notes Towards an Anthropology of Money (2005) Kritikos: an international and interdisciplinary journal of postmodern cultural sound, text and image, Volume 2, June 2005
Agrarian Civilisation and Modern World Society (2005) A review of the life and work of anthropologist Jack Goody
Notes Towards an Anthropology of the Internet (2004) Examines the origins of the Internet and its political economy, and takes a Kantian approach to the dialectics of real and virtual social life. Published in Horizontes Antropologicos, a Brazilian journal.
The Political Economy of Food in an Unequal World (2004) Book chapter. Argues that global food politics is the central problem of development facing the poor countries and revives some ideas of mercantilist economics.
Teaching Social Anthropology (2004) Epilogue to D. Drackle and I. Edgar, eds., Current Policies and Practices in European Social Anthropology Education, Berghahn, Oxford, 2004.
What Anthropologists Really Do (2004) This Anthropology Today article questions the claim that the discipline's method is best summed up as ‘fieldwork-based ethnography’.
Money: One Anthropologist’s View (2005) Chapter for a handbook of economic anthropology aimed at non-anthropologists.
Manchester on my Mind (2003) A memoir in ten episodes reflecting on the influence of my home city on my anthropological career. Mainly about movement and identity. Published in a special issue of Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs dedicated to Ulf Hannerz.
World Society as an Old Regime (2002) Book chapter, originally keynote address to a 1999 anthropologists’ conference on elites. Combines revelations about a seventies career as a consultant with an expansion of the idea in the title.
Cultural Critique in Anthropology (2002) Entry for the International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Bevavioral Sciences.
The Euro: New Wine in an Old Jar (2002) Written for L’Observatoire de la Finance, Geneva on the occasion of the euro’s arrival in January 2002. Develops an analytical approach towards judging how new it is as a kind of money.
Anthropologists and Development (2002) Written for a Norwegian audience, it summarizes my main conclusions from a life spent as an anthropologist in and out of the development industry. From Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, Vol. 13 no.1-2-2002 special issue on anthropology and development, pp.14-21
Money in an Unequal World (2001) A longish summary of the main argument of the book, for a special issue of Anthropological Theory on inequality. Addresses the question of world revolution more specifically than the book.
Indian Business in South Africa after Apartheid (with Vishnu Padaychee, 2000) Case studies of Indian enterprises in the 1990s placed within a context of South African and world history since the late 19th century. In Comparative Studies in Society and History.
The Place of the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits in the History of British Social Anthropology (1999) Assesses the contribution of W.H.R. Rivers to British social anthropology. Lecture for a conference on “Anthropology and psychology: the legacy of the Torres Strait expedition, 1898-1998”. Published online by Science as Culture.
Kinship, contract and trust: the economic life of migrants in an African city slum (1988) Chapter in Diego Gambetta, ed., Trust: the making and breaking of co-operative relations (Blackwell, Oxford), the most mature reflection on my Accra fiedwork, 1965-8.
Informal Economy (1987) Entry in The New Palgrave: a Dictionary of Economic Theory and Doctrine Vol. 2, soon to be rewritten for a second edition.
