C A Gregory
Biographic Data
| ID | 16743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C A Gregory |
| GIVEN NAMES | C A |
| FAMILY NAME | Gregory |
| SIGNATURE | GREGORY C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tri County Technical College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
After Words: From Ethos to Pathos
This collection of essays is the product of a series of workshops over a long period where the organizing themes were debated and modified and drafts of articles discussed and revised. I entered the discussion toward the end of this period in a weekend workshop held in Manchester on April 29–30, 2006, where the penultimate drafts were presented. As the essays dealt mainly with Melanesia and South Asia, and as I am one of the few anthropologists a…
Among the Dockhands: Another Look at Working-Class Male Culture
The following essay examines the congruence of American labor and social history scholarship with actualworking-classexperiences. Particularly, it compares an author's immersion in a masculine working-class environment with recent ideas in historical research about the interplay of gender and work. The author argues that the challenge of working on a fast-paced loading dock with male coworkers was made less onerous by the free expression of worki…
Anthropology, Economics, and Political Economy: A Critique of Pearson
Research Article| November 01 2000 Anthropology, Economics, and Political Economy: A Critique of Pearson C. A. Gregory C. A. Gregory Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (4): 999-1010. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-4-999 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Pe…
Dialogues with the Dead: The Discussion of Mortality among the Sora of Eastern India . Piers VITEBSKY
Cowries and Conquest: Towards a Subalternate Quality Theory of Money
In the beginning of the world we had the forge and we forged things, we had weavinglooms and we wove our clothes, we had oracle huts where we consulted the oracle, and we had boats from which we caught fish. We had no guns. We had no cowrie-money (akwá). If you went to the market you took beans in order to exchange them for sweet potatoes. You exchanged something specific for something else. Then the king brought the cowrie-money. What did the ki…
Exchange in Oceania: A Graph Theoretic Analysis
Graph theory and exchange structures: primordial structures necessary relations graphs and their uses set theoretic concepts Paths, cycles, and partitions: basic definitions bipartite graphs and dual organization colourable signed graphs and competitive exchange ceremonial analogues of marriage exchange exchange quartets Centres, neighbourhoods, and roots: voyaging, exchange, and stratification in the Caroline Islands rooted graphs and island set…
Observing the Economy
1. Introduction 2. The theory/data dialectic 3. Land and Environment 4. Labour and its Organisation 5. Technology 6. Output - Surpluses and deficits 7. Distribution and exchange 8. Consumption 9. Economics, Politics, religion and ideology 10. Interpreting Economic data
Observing the Economy
Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State
Economies Across Cultures: Towards a Comparative Science of the Economy
Primitive and Peasant Markets
Village money lending, the World Bank and landlessness in Central India
Additional informationNotes on contributorsC.A. GregoryComments received from the participants at the Journal of Contemporary Asia Conference in Manila in December 1986 have enabled me to make a number of improvements to this paper. I am also indebted to Caroline Ifeka, Lesley Devereaux and Judith Robinson for many helpful comments. Research was conducted in India with funds provided by the UK Social Science Research Council, to which I am very g…
The Making of Great Men: Male Domination and Power Among the New Guinea Baruya
Gifts and Commodities Economies
This article critiques the neo-Maussian dichotomy between gifts and commodities, arguing that it rests on a misinterpretation of Mauss's original work. Schwimmer and Gregory demonstrate that the distinction is not absolute but rather a matter of degree, with many transactions exhibiting characteristics of both gift exchange and commodity exchange. They propose a more nuanced framework for understanding economic transactions, emphasizing the impor…
Gifts to Men and Gifts to God: Gift Exchange and Capital Accumulation in Contemporary Papua
This article examines the complex relationship between gift exchange and capital accumulation in contemporary Papua New Guinea, focusing on the Daribi and Foi peoples. Gregory argues against the traditional anthropological view that Melanesian gift exchange operates outside the realm of capitalist logic. He demonstrates how indigenous gift-giving practices, while seemingly embedded in traditional social structures and cosmological beliefs, are in…
Gifts to Men and Gifts to God: Gift Exchange and Capital Accumulation in Contemporary Papua
This article examines the complex relationship between gift exchange and capital accumulation in contemporary Papua New Guinea, focusing on the Daribi and Foi peoples. Gregory argues against the traditional anthropological view that Melanesian gift exchange operates outside the realm of capitalist logic. He demonstrates how indigenous gift-giving practices, while seemingly embedded in traditional social structures and cosmological beliefs, are in…
Cowries and Conquest: Towards a Subalternate Quality Theory of Money
In the beginning of the world we had the forge and we forged things, we had weavinglooms and we wove our clothes, we had oracle huts where we consulted the oracle, and we had boats from which we caught fish. We had no guns. We had no cowrie-money (akwá). If you went to the market you took beans in order to exchange them for sweet potatoes. You exchanged something specific for something else. Then the king brought the cowrie-money. What did the ki…
The Making of Great Men: Male Domination and Power Among the New Guinea Baruya
Among the Dockhands: Another Look at Working-Class Male Culture
The following essay examines the congruence of American labor and social history scholarship with actualworking-classexperiences. Particularly, it compares an author's immersion in a masculine working-class environment with recent ideas in historical research about the interplay of gender and work. The author argues that the challenge of working on a fast-paced loading dock with male coworkers was made less onerous by the free expression of worki…
Primitive and Peasant Markets
Village money lending, the World Bank and landlessness in Central India
Additional informationNotes on contributorsC.A. GregoryComments received from the participants at the Journal of Contemporary Asia Conference in Manila in December 1986 have enabled me to make a number of improvements to this paper. I am also indebted to Caroline Ifeka, Lesley Devereaux and Judith Robinson for many helpful comments. Research was conducted in India with funds provided by the UK Social Science Research Council, to which I am very g…
Anthropology, Economics, and Political Economy: A Critique of Pearson
Research Article| November 01 2000 Anthropology, Economics, and Political Economy: A Critique of Pearson C. A. Gregory C. A. Gregory Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (4): 999-1010. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-4-999 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Pe…
Economies Across Cultures: Towards a Comparative Science of the Economy
Gifts to Men and Gifts to God: Gift Exchange and Capital Accumulation in Contemporary Papua
This article examines the complex relationship between gift exchange and capital accumulation in contemporary Papua New Guinea, focusing on the Daribi and Foi peoples. Gregory argues against the traditional anthropological view that Melanesian gift exchange operates outside the realm of capitalist logic. He demonstrates how indigenous gift-giving practices, while seemingly embedded in traditional social structures and cosmological beliefs, are in…
Gifts and Commodities Economies
This article critiques the neo-Maussian dichotomy between gifts and commodities, arguing that it rests on a misinterpretation of Mauss's original work. Schwimmer and Gregory demonstrate that the distinction is not absolute but rather a matter of degree, with many transactions exhibiting characteristics of both gift exchange and commodity exchange. They propose a more nuanced framework for understanding economic transactions, emphasizing the impor…
The Making of Great Men: Male Domination and Power Among the New Guinea Baruya
Village money lending, the World Bank and landlessness in Central India
Additional informationNotes on contributorsC.A. GregoryComments received from the participants at the Journal of Contemporary Asia Conference in Manila in December 1986 have enabled me to make a number of improvements to this paper. I am also indebted to Caroline Ifeka, Lesley Devereaux and Judith Robinson for many helpful comments. Research was conducted in India with funds provided by the UK Social Science Research Council, to which I am very g…
Primitive and Peasant Markets
Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State
Economies Across Cultures: Towards a Comparative Science of the Economy
Observing the Economy
1. Introduction 2. The theory/data dialectic 3. Land and Environment 4. Labour and its Organisation 5. Technology 6. Output - Surpluses and deficits 7. Distribution and exchange 8. Consumption 9. Economics, Politics, religion and ideology 10. Interpreting Economic data
Observing the Economy
Exchange in Oceania: A Graph Theoretic Analysis
Graph theory and exchange structures: primordial structures necessary relations graphs and their uses set theoretic concepts Paths, cycles, and partitions: basic definitions bipartite graphs and dual organization colourable signed graphs and competitive exchange ceremonial analogues of marriage exchange exchange quartets Centres, neighbourhoods, and roots: voyaging, exchange, and stratification in the Caroline Islands rooted graphs and island set…
Dialogues with the Dead: The Discussion of Mortality among the Sora of Eastern India . Piers VITEBSKY
Cowries and Conquest: Towards a Subalternate Quality Theory of Money
In the beginning of the world we had the forge and we forged things, we had weavinglooms and we wove our clothes, we had oracle huts where we consulted the oracle, and we had boats from which we caught fish. We had no guns. We had no cowrie-money (akwá). If you went to the market you took beans in order to exchange them for sweet potatoes. You exchanged something specific for something else. Then the king brought the cowrie-money. What did the ki…
Anthropology, Economics, and Political Economy: A Critique of Pearson
Research Article| November 01 2000 Anthropology, Economics, and Political Economy: A Critique of Pearson C. A. Gregory C. A. Gregory Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (4): 999-1010. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-4-999 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Pe…
Among the Dockhands: Another Look at Working-Class Male Culture
The following essay examines the congruence of American labor and social history scholarship with actualworking-classexperiences. Particularly, it compares an author's immersion in a masculine working-class environment with recent ideas in historical research about the interplay of gender and work. The author argues that the challenge of working on a fast-paced loading dock with male coworkers was made less onerous by the free expression of worki…
After Words: From Ethos to Pathos
This collection of essays is the product of a series of workshops over a long period where the organizing themes were debated and modified and drafts of articles discussed and revised. I entered the discussion toward the end of this period in a weekend workshop held in Manchester on April 29–30, 2006, where the penultimate drafts were presented. As the essays dealt mainly with Melanesia and South Asia, and as I am one of the few anthropologists a…
Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economic Theory and Policy (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (3 works)