Duran Bell
Professor, Economics
School of Social Sciences
School of Social Sciences
PH.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1965
University of California, Irvine
4171 Social Sciences Plaza A
Mail Code: 5100
Irvine, CA 92697
4171 Social Sciences Plaza A
Mail Code: 5100
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Models of social processes, economic anthropology
Websites
Research Abstract
Addressing issues in exchange, sharing, marriage payments, social structure and related issues in economic anthropology.
Publications
1998: Wealth transfers associated with marriage, in T. Schweizer and D. R. White (eds) Kinship, Networks and Exchange, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1990: Characteristics of Bridewealth Under Restricted Exchange, (with Shunfeng Song) Journal of Quantitative Anthropology 2,(3).
1991: Modes of exchange: gift and commodity, Journal of Socio-Economics 20, (2).
1992 : Reciprocity as a generating process in social relations, Journal of Quantitative Anthropology, 3, (3).
1995: Beyond Methodological Individualism: On the nature of sharing. Current Anthropology 36 (5)
1997: Defining marriage and legitimacy, with CA* commentaries and Reply. Current Anthropology 37 (1)
2000: Guanxi: A nesting of groups, Current Anthropology, 41 (1): 132-138.
2001: Polanyi and the definition of capitalism, in Jean Ensminger (ed), Theory in Economic Anthropology. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press .
2003. Wealth and Power: Survival in a Time of Global Accumulation. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press
2004. Evolution of Middle Eastern Social Structures: a new model, Journal of Social Evolution and History 4(1)
2003 Values and Valuables: From the Sacred to the Symbolic, Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press (edited, with Cynthia Werner)
Professional Societies
American Economic Association
Society for Economic Anthropology
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Last updated
10/14/2004
10/14/2004