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Economic Habitus and Management of Needs: The Example of the Gypsies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Bernard Formoso
Bernard Formoso*
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University of Paris X-Nanterre
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From its very beginnings economic anthropology had to tackle a major obstacle: the very nature of its object of study. What in fact is meant by the use of the term ‘economics’ or its corresponding adjective? Does ‘economics’ refer to a specific relationship between ends and means, as some think, or is it defined, more prosaically, as the satisfaction of material needs? Is it a category of specific facts or a praxeology of goal-oriented action? Some interesting debates on the matter, which have brought formalist, substantivist, and Marxist writers into conflict, have revealed marked ideological distortions, some reductionism, and finally epistemological positions that were difficult to reconcile.

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 48 , Issue 190 , June 2000 , pp. 58 - 73
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Copyright © ICPHS 2000

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