1st Edition
Risk And Uncertainty In Tribal And Peasant Economies
By Elizabeth Cashdan
Copyright 1990
342 Pages
by
Routledge
342 Pages
by
Routledge
342 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is concerned with how people respond to unpredictable variation in environmental and economic conditions (risk) and lack of information (uncertainty) about those risks. The papers focus on tribal and peasant societies. These societies lack many of the formal institutions that we, in the industrialized West, rely on to buffer us against unpredictable resource fluctuations. As the papers... Read more
1 Introduction Part I Ecological and Economic Approaches Part II Risk and Subsistence Part III Risk and Markets
Biography
ELIZABETH CASHDAN, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah
