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Jane I. Guyer's Degrees
- PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
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- Prophecy and the near future: Thoughts on macroeconomic, evangelical, and punctuated time (2007) (537)
- Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa (2004) (461)
- Household and Community in African Studies (1981) (399)
- Wealth in People and Self-Realization in Equatorial Africa (1993) (253)
- Wealth in People as Wealth in Knowledge: Accumulation and Composition in Equatorial Africa (1995) (246)
- Conceptualizing the household-Issues of theory and policy in Africa-Introduction (1987) (181)
- Representation Without Taxation: an Essay on Democracy in Rural Nigeria, 1952-1990 (1992) (152)
- Regions Based on Social Structure (1996) (134)
- :The Pan African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria (2007) (132)
- The Political Economy of West African Agriculture (1984) (132)
- Household budgets and women's incomes (1980) (116)
- Wealth in People, Wealth in Things – Introduction (1995) (109)
- Fertility and the Male Life-Cycle in the Era of Fertility Decline (2000) (109)
- Family and Farm in Southern Cameroon (1988) (104)
- Legacies, Logics, Logistics: Essays in the Anthropology of the Platform Economy (2016) (95)
- Land Use in an Urban Hinterland: Ethnography and Remote Sensing in the Study of African (1993) (89)
- Bridewealth and Dowry Revisited: The Position of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa and North India [and Comments and Reply] (1989) (86)
- The invention of biodiversity: social perspectives on the management of biological variety in Africa (1996) (81)
- Traditions of Invention in Equatorial Africa (1996) (80)
- An African niche economy : farming to feed Ibadan, 1968-88 (1997) (72)
- Food, Cocoa, and the Division of Labour by Sex in Two West African Societies (1980) (69)
- Money matters : instability, values, and social payments in the modern history of West African communities (1996) (68)
- The Shell Money of the Slave Trade (1988) (66)
- Feeding African Cities (1989) (65)
- Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today: Composites, fictions, and risk: toward an ethnography of price (2009) (62)
- Rice in West Africa: Policy and Economics (1981) (58)
- Introduction: Number as Inventive Frontier (2010) (56)
- “The quickening of the unknown” (2013) (54)
- Soft currencies, cash economies, new monies: Past and present (2012) (53)
- On ‘possibility’ (2009) (53)
- The Food Economy and French Colonial Rule in Central Cameroun (1978) (51)
- Naturalism in Models of African Production (1984) (47)
- Indigenous Currencies and the History of Marriage Payments. A Case Study From Cameroon (1986) (44)
- The Multiplication of Labor: Historical Methods in the Study of Gender and Agricultural Change in Modern Africa [and Comments and Reply] (1988) (42)
- Anthropology in Area Studies (2004) (41)
- Temporal Heterogeneity in the Study of African Land Use (2007) (40)
- Obligation, binding, debt and responsibility: provocations about temporality from two new sources (2012) (39)
- Briefing: The Chad‐Cameroon petroleum and pipeline development project (2002) (38)
- 7 Endowments and Assets: The Anthropology of Wealth and the Economics of Intrahousehold Allocation (2007) (38)
- Female farming and the evolution of food production patterns amongst the Beti of south-central Cameroon (1980) (36)
- African studies in the United States : a perspective (1996) (36)
- The eruption of tradition? (2010) (30)
- Credit, currencies and culture : African financial institutions in historical perspective (2001) (28)
- Diversity and intensity in the scholarship on African agricultural change (1997) (28)
- Percentages and perchance: archaic forms in the twenty-first century (2014) (27)
- Representation without taxation (1991) (26)
- Head Tax, Social Structure and Rural Incomes in Cameroun, 1922-1937. (1980) (26)
- “toiling ingenuity”: food regulation in Britain and Nigeria (1993) (25)
- Poor numbers. How we are misled by African development statistics and what to do about it (2014) (25)
- Money Struggles and City Life: Devaluation in Ibadan and Other Urban Centers in Southern Nigeria, 1986-1996 (2002) (23)
- SEVEN. Female Farming in Anthropology and African History (1991) (21)
- DESCRIBING URBAN ‘NO MAN'S LAND’ IN AFRICA (2011) (21)
- Small change: individual farm work and collective life in a western Nigerian savanna town, 1969–88 (1992) (20)
- Intra-Household Processes and Farming Systems Research: Perspectives from Anthropology (2019) (20)
- Blueprints, Judgment, and Perseverance in a Corporate Context (2011) (17)
- Markets in Africa in a New Era (2001) (14)
- Women's Agricultural Work in a Multimodal Rural Economy: Ibarapa District, Oyo State, Nigeria (1991) (13)
- Anthropology: The Study of Social and Cultural Originality (1999) (13)
- Africa Has Never Been “Traditional”: So Can We Make a General Case? A Response to the Articles (2007) (12)
- The Depression and the Administration of South Central Cameroon (1981) (12)
- The true gift: Thoughts on L’Année sociologique of 1925 (2014) (11)
- Housing as “capital” (2015) (11)
- Diversity at different levels: farm and community in western Nigeria (1996) (11)
- A joyful history of anthropology (2016) (11)
- The real in the real economy (2017) (10)
- Historical Methods in the Study of Gender and Agricultural Change in Modern Africa (1988) (10)
- On the anthropology of the contemporary (2016) (10)
- Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge (2005) (9)
- Money and Currency in African History (2018) (9)
- Introduction: Markets in Africa in a New Era (2001) (8)
- Prebendalism and the People: The Price of Petrol at the Pump (2013) (7)
- Introduction to the question: is confusion a form? (2015) (7)
- PAUPER, PERCENTILE, PRECARITY: ANALYTICS FOR POVERTY STUDIES IN AFRICA (2018) (7)
- The economic position of Beti widows, past and present (1979) (7)
- Niches, Margins and Profits: Persisting with Heterogeneity (2004) (6)
- GAINS AND LOSSES IN THE MARGINS OF TIME: FROM WEST AND EQUATORIAL HISTORY TO PRESENT-DAY SOUTH AFRICA, AND BACK (2014) (6)
- Legacies, Logics, Logistics (2016) (6)
- Colombian Conversations: The Strength of the Earth [and Comments and Replies] (1989) (6)
- Vision and policy in Nigerian economics : the legacy of Pius Okigbo (2005) (5)
- Rationality or Reasoning? Comment on Heath Pearson's " Homo Economicus Goes Native, 1859-1945" (2000) (5)
- Contemplating Uncertainty (2002) (4)
- Commercialization and the Harvest Work of Women, Ibarapa, Oyo State, Nigeria (1991) (4)
- Distant Beacons and Immediate Steps: Area Studies, International Studies and the Disciplines in 1996 (1997) (4)
- Durational ethics (2014) (4)
- Palm Oil and Protest. An economic history of the Ngwa Region, South-Eastern Nigeria, 1800–1980 (1989) (4)
- Life Courses of Indebtedness in Rural Nigeria (2013) (4)
- Women's Farming and Present Ethnography: Perspectives on a Nigerian Restudy* (2020) (3)
- Cash and Livelihood in Soft Currency Economies: Challenges for Research (2017) (3)
- Terms of Debate versus Words in Circulation: Some Rhetorics of the Crisis (2012) (3)
- Aftermaths and recuperations in anthropology (2017) (3)
- Money’s micro and macro qualities: Slaves, colonies, regions, and markets in the historical Caribbean – and beyond (2018) (3)
- Fiscal Disobedience. an Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa (2006) (3)
- Confusion and personification in Yoruba thought and practice (2015) (3)
- Chapter 6. When and How Does Hope Spring Eternal in Personal and Popular Economics? Thoughts from West Africa to America (2016) (2)
- Distributed Agency and Debt in the Durational Ethics of Responsibility (2017) (2)
- African Studies in the United States (1960) (2)
- Feeding African Cities: Studies in Regional Social History. (1989) (2)
- [Part II Introduction] (1998) (2)
- Money is Good to Think:: From “Wants of the Mind” to Conversation, Stories, and Accounts (2017) (2)
- The politics of the real economy* (2018) (2)
- Farmers’ Rainfall Anticipation: Incidence and Patterns in Western Nigeria. Advantages of Focus and Problems of Extrapolation in Case Studies (2015) (2)
- Response: one confusion after another: “Slander” in Amos Tutuola’s Pauper, Brawler and Slanderer (1987) (2015) (2)
- Further: A rejoinder (2007) (1)
- Economics and Morality: Anthropological Approaches edited by Katherine E. Browne and B. Lynne Milgram (2009) (1)
- Women's Farming and Present Ethnography: Thoughts on a Nigerian Re-Study (1990) (1)
- Chapter 11. Oil Assemblages and the Production of Confusion. (2018) (1)
- Survivals as infrastructure: Twenty-first-century struggles with household and family in formal computations (2016) (1)
- Prebendalism and the People (2013) (1)
- The Real Economy : Essays in Ethnographic Theory (2020) (1)
- Markets and Urban Provisioning (2015) (1)
- Women and the state in Africa (1998) (1)
- The provident societies in the rural economy of Yaounde, 1945-1960. (1980) (1)
- AFR volume 91 issue 5 Cover and Front matter (2021) (0)
- AFR volume 92 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2022) (0)
- Feeding Yaoundé, Capital of Cameroon (2018) (0)
- André Franqueville, Yaoundé: construire une capitate. Collection Memoires 104. Paris: ORSTOM, 1984, 192 pp. (1987) (0)
- Appadurai, Arjun. Banking on words: the failure of language in the age of derivative finance. viii, 180 pp., bibliogr. Chicago: Univ. Press, 2016. $22.50 (paper) (2017) (0)
- AFR volume 89 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2019) (0)
- Decolonizing Knowledge: From Development to Dialogue (1998) (0)
- S ANNUAL REVIEW (2016) (0)
- Translator ’ s preface An introduction to “ Joking relations ” by Marcel Mauss (2013) (0)
- Translator ’ s preface An introduction to “ Joking relations ” by Marcel Mauss (2013) (0)
- The Economic Anthropology of Africa (2019) (0)
- CREDIT SYSTEMS Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World, 1750–1960. Edited by GARETH AUSTIN and KAORU SUGIHARA. London: Macmillan Press, 1993. Pp. vii + 318. £40 (ISBN 0-333-52320-2). (1997) (0)
- AFR volume 92 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2022) (0)
- International Advisory Group Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (2004) (0)
- Insecurities of Money (2012) (0)
- Developmental cycles and commodity production in Africa (1987) (0)
- Chapter 13. Life Courses of Indebtedness in Rural Nigeria (2013) (0)
- Gifts: A Study in Comparative Law by Richard Hyland (2011) (0)
- Kongo Political Culture: The Conceptual Challenge of the Particular. Wyatt MacGaffey (2001) (0)
- relations between Europe and Africa.1 A long-term decline in (2016) (0)
- A HOMAGE TO BETI SOCIETY (2007) (0)
- Book reviews (1990) (0)
- Book Review Walking the tightrope. Informal livelihoods and social networks in a West African city By Iida Lourenco-Lidell (2002) (2005) (0)
- Postscript: From Memory to Conviction and Action (2005) (0)
- The Labor Process and Modes of Production in Africa (1981) (0)
- African Studies: Culture (2015) (0)
- RAILWAYMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria. By LISA A. LINDSAY. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. xvi+241. No price given (ISBN 0-325-00188-X); $23.95, paperback (ISBN 0-325-00187-1). (2005) (0)
- The social shaping of biodiversity, Special Issue. (1996) (0)
- Money and the Everyday (2019) (0)
- Sexual Harassment: Report from COSWA (1995) (0)
- AFR volume 92 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (2022) (0)
- How Would You Like to Pay? How Technology Is Changing the Future of Money. Bill Maurer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015, 176 pp. $19.95, paper. ISBN 978-0-8223-5999-9. (2017) (0)
- To Dance the Spirit: Masks of Liberia (1993) (0)
- AFR volume 88 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (2018) (0)
- Bush Base; Forest Farm: Culture, Environment and Development. Elisabeth Croll , David Parkin (1993) (0)
- Comparative Epilogue (2018) (0)
- Confusion and Silence: Public Rhetoric in Monetarist Crises, from Nigeria to the US (2009) (0)
- Women's work in the economy of theCocoa belt: a comparison (1978) (0)
- Belgian-French relations during World War II: the perspective of a Congo Governor General (1981) (0)
- THE SYMPOSIUM: How can economic anthropology contribute to a more just world? (2017) (0)
- Afterword. Noticing Life, Matters Arising (2020) (0)
- AFR volume 92 issue 5 Cover and Front matter (2022) (0)
- Eugenia W. Herbert. Iron, Gender and Power. (1995) (0)
- AFR volume 57 issue 4 Back matter (1987) (0)
- Inequality and Underdevelopment in Africa: A Suggested Approach (1980) (0)
- Exploring the 'Niche Economy': A Commentary (2004) (0)
- Anthropology and the Near-Future Concept (2017) (0)
- AFR volume 90 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2020) (0)
- AFR volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (2020) (0)
- AFRICAN STUDIES: A NEW TRADITION? (2016) (0)
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