Understanding Commodity Cultures: Explorations in Economic Anthropology with Case Studies from Mexico Book

1	Economic otherness south of the border : the twentieth-century foundations and formation of the economic anthropology of Mexico	19
2	Commodity culture(s), capitalism, and the economic anthropology of Mexico : the case of B. Traven	41
3	Rereading Penny capitalism : the paradox of poverty in a land of enterprise	65
4	Rereading canonical texts and revisiting the "great debate" : a retrospective view from the trenches through a twenty-first-century lens	87
5	Commodity value, culture, and economy	121
6	Understanding peasants, commodity economy, and change in the Mesoamerican experience	155
7	Commodity culture(s), livelihood strategies, and reproductive goals : a critique of ethnography	179
8	Social reproduction of commodity value : mapping interior and exterior connections	215
9	The U.S.-Mexico borderlands : commodity culture(s), labor, and capital	247
10	The new transborder space : NAFTAmerica, migration, and identity	267
	Afterword : commodity culture(s), economic value, and the future	297