Anthropology and the Economy of Sharing

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* Book: Anthropology and the Economy of Sharing. By Thomas Widlok. Routledge, 2017.

URL = https://www.routledge.com/Anthropology-and-the-Economy-of-Sharing/Widlok/p/book/9781138945548

Description

"This book examines the economy of sharing in a variety of social and political contexts around the world, with consideration given to the role of sharing in relation to social order and social change, political power, group formation, individual networks and concepts of personhood. Widlok advocates a refreshingly broad comparative approach to our understanding of sharing, with a rich range of material from hunter-gatherer ethnography alongside debates and empirical illustrations from globalized society, helping students to avoid Western economic bias in their thinking. Anthropology and the Economy of Sharing also demonstrates that sharing is distinct from gift-giving, exchange and reciprocity, which have become dominant themes in economic anthropology, and suggests that a new focus on sharing will have significant repercussions for anthropological theory." (https://www.routledge.com/Anthropology-and-the-Economy-of-Sharing/Widlok/p/book/9781138945548)


Contents

Introduction: Sharing – an alternative

1. This is not a gift

2. Sharing the prey: Evolutionary assumptions

3. The ethnography of sharing demand

4. The things we share

5. It’s a shareholder’s world

6. Introducing the sharing economy

7. The time to share

Conclusions: The limits of sharing and the finite self