Engaging with Capitalism: Cases from Oceania

Oceania has long been a significant site for situating anthropological critiques of capitalism, where Pacific practices and principles are pitched against Eurocentric and economistic assumptions, like the universality of homo economicus and the primacy of the profit motive. Nevertheless, there is an expanding regional literature on people's desire to access money, modernity and expected material gains by engaging in the market system. This collection represents a substantial addition to that corpus, and one of particular relevance and applicability in development planning and policy-making.