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The analysis of economies across cultures has been grounded in economic anthropology, a subfield of anthropology that deals with the entire range of economies and cultures found in the prehistoric, historic and ethnographic records.1 If we think of economic anthropology in this broad sense, then it is the subfield with the greatest potential for creating a cross-cultural science of the economy. Such a science would be able to describe, explain, and, perhaps, eventually to predict pattern, variability and change in economic processes and systems through time and across cultures.
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© 1988 Rhoda H. Halperin
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Halperin, R.H. (1988). Paradigms for Studying Economies across Cultures. In: Economies across Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19623-4_2
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