1st Edition
The Anthropology of Entrepreneurship Cultural History, Global Ethnographies, Theorizing Agency
Part I: The Social Life of Entrepreneurship
1. Entrepreneurialism: The First Fifty Years
2. Talking Entrepreneurship
3. Entrepreneurship Studies and Entrepreneurial Academia
Part II: The History of Entrepreneurship in Anthropology
4. Agency-driven Social Change
5. Culture Theories of Entrepreneurship
Part III: Global Contemporary Entrepreneurialism
6. The Social in Entrepreneurship
7. Oppressive Entrepreneurship
8. Entrepreneurialization
Biography
Richard Pfeilstetter is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Seville.
"Are you looking for a concise yet comprehensive introductory book on Entrepreneurship which skillfully adorns theoretical foundations with cutting-edge empirical cases? Look no further." -- Nikolay Domashev in the Journal of Business Anthropology
"For an outsider to anthropology the book provided an engaging and swift tour of the strange history of entrepreneurship studies in anthropology." -- Philip Roscoe, author of Creating Economy (Oxford UP) and A Richer Life (Penguin)
"The book’s discussion of the history of entrepreneurship in anthropology is excellent." -- Joost Beuving in the Journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists
"From Barth's actor perspective and Geertz's cultural history to Pfeilstetter's term “entrepreneurialization” […] Pfeilstetter not only points to new empirical areas, but also to “a theoretical project reinterpreting structural conditions as agentive interventions"." -- Leif Manger in the Norwegian Journal of Anthropology
