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applying econometric techniques to economic anthropology
Author(s) -
FINKLER KAJA
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1979.6.4.02a00040
Subject(s) - emic and etic , economic anthropology , socioeconomic status , sociology , anthropology , economics , geography , demography , population
This paper demonstrates the ways in which techniques developed by economists prove to be useful tools to compare emic and etic models of production and how these techniques shed light on long‐standing anthropological concerns, including decision‐making processes and processes of socioeconomic differentiation.