James G. Carrier is an Associate of the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Indiana. His recent books include Anthropologies of Class: Power, Practice, and Inequality (co-editor with Don Kalb) and After the Crisis: Anthropological Thought, Neoliberalism and the Aftermath (editor).

Introducing economic anthropology

1. Production and what is produced

2. Changing production

3. Circulation, identity, relationship and order

4. Gifts and commodities

5. Commercial circulation

6. Considering Christmas

7. Consumption and meaning

8. Consumption in context

Afterword