Outputs (2)

Performing economy differently: Exploring economic personhood and local economic diversity (2009)
Journal Article
McKay. (2009). Performing economy differently: Exploring economic personhood and local economic diversity. Australian Journal of Anthropology, 330 - 346. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1757-6547.2009.00040.x

Many popular conceptions of economy now delimit what counts as the ‘real’ economy by capitalist enterprises, market transactions and wage labour. Anthropologists describe such ideas of economy as abstract, dis-embedded (Polanyi 1957a, b) or virtual (... Read More about Performing economy differently: Exploring economic personhood and local economic diversity.

Rethinking Indigenous Place: Igorot Identity and Locality in the Philippines (2009)
Journal Article
McKay. (2009). Rethinking Indigenous Place: Igorot Identity and Locality in the Philippines. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1835-9310.2006.tb00065.x

Spanish and American colonisers ascribed the identity ‘Igorot’ to the peoples of the northern Philippine mountains, positioning them in the ‘tribal slot’, somewhere between ordinary peasants and ‘backward’ primitives. From this marginal position, con... Read More about Rethinking Indigenous Place: Igorot Identity and Locality in the Philippines.