How did “economic anthropology” emerge as a sub field of anthropology?
Economic Anthropology: A branch that attempts to describe the economic behavior of a human in its widest historic, geographic, and scope of culture is known as economic anthropology.
It is a compound of economics and anthropology which is practiced by anthropologists and it has a troubled relationship with the discipline of economics of which it is highly critical.
It originated as a sub-field of anthropology with the work by the
polish founder of anthropology Bronislaw and the French Marcel
Mauss on the features of reciprocity as an option to market
exchange.
Economic anthropology had a high influence due to the work of economic historian Karl Polanyi as he drew anthropological study to dispute that true market exchange was limited to a confined number of western, industrial society.
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