Market Cultures: Society And Morality In The New Asian Capitalisms

Market Cultures: Society And Morality In The New Asian Capitalisms

by Robert Hefner
Market Cultures: Society And Morality In The New Asian Capitalisms

Market Cultures: Society And Morality In The New Asian Capitalisms

by Robert Hefner

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Overview

Examining the spectacular growth of capitalist enterprise among overseas Chinese and South-East Asians, this volume does so, not in terms of formal models and faceless abstractions, but in the light of the institutions through which local people give meaning and moral value to business enterprise.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367316808
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 08/27/2019
Pages: 340
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robert Hefner is professor of anthropology and associate director at the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture at Boston University.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Chinese Capitalisms and Cultural Pluralism, 1 Culture and Organization in Taiwan's Market Economy, 2 Divided Market Cultures in China: Gender, Enterprise, and Religion, 3 Getting Rich Is Not So Glorious: Contrasting Perspectives on Prosperity Among Muslims and Han in China, Part 2: Indigenes and Chinese in Southeast Asia, Business Success Among Southeast Asian Chinese: The Role of Culture, Values, and Social Structures, 5 Constituting Capitalist Culture: The Singapore Malay Problem and Entrepreneurship Reconsidered, 6 The "Great Transformation" Among Negeri Sembilan Malays, with Particular Reference to Chinese and Minangkabau, Part 3: Southeast Asian Capitalisms, 7 Women Traders in Javanese Marketplaces: Ethnicity, Gender, and the Entrepreneurial Spirit, 8 Markets and Justice for Muslim Indonesians, 9 Contingent Moralities: Social and Economic Investment in a Philippine Fishing Town, 10 State Stigma, Family Prestige, and the Development of Commerce in the Red River Delta of Vietnam, 11 Engendered Entrepreneurship: Ideologies and Political-Economic Transformation in a Northern Vietnamese Center of Ceramics Production

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