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Economic Anthropology

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The establishment of the Society of Economic Anthropology in 1971 symbolized the coming-of-age of an important sub-discipline in Anthropology.

This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 1st edition, 1987. Edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman

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    Gregory, C.A. (1987). Economic Anthropology. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_146-1

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