Publications

Journal Articles

1981
Labour Migration and Labour Export on Ponam Island. Oceania 51: 237-255.

1981
Ownership of Productive Resources on Ponam Island, Manus Province. Journal de la Société des Océanistes 37: 205-217.

1982
Fishing Practices on Ponam Island (Manus Province, Papua New Guinea). Anthropos 77: 904-915.

1982
Knowledge, Meaning and Social Inequality in Kenneth Burke. American Journal of Sociology 88: 43-61.

1983
Explaining Educability: An Investigation of Political Support for the Children with Learning Disabilities Act of 1969. British Journal of Sociology of Education 4: 125-140.

1983
Masking the Social in Educational Knowledge: The Case of Learning Dis¬ability Theory. American Journal of Sociology 88: 948-974.

1983
Profitless Property: Marine Ownership and Access to Wealth on Ponam Island, Manus Province. Ethnology 22: 133-151. (J. G. Carrier and A. Carrier.)

1984
Cultural Themes in Educational Debates: The Nature-Culture Opposition in Accounts of Unequal Educational Performance. British Journal of Sociology of Education 5: 33-47.

1985
A Manus Centenary: Production, Kinship and Exchange in the Admiralty Islands. American Ethnologist 12: 505-522. (J. G. Carrier and A. Carrier.)

1985
Sorcery and SSCEP: The Cultural Context of an Educational Innovation. British Journal of Sociology of Education 6: 17-33. (Graham Vulliamy and J. G. Carrier.)

1986
Sociology and Special Education: Differentiation and Allocation in Mass Education. American Journal of Education 94: 281-312.
Reprinted in: Danforth, Scott and Steven D. Taff (eds) 2004. Crucial Readings in Special Education. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Merrill/Prentice Hall.

1987
Brigadoon; or, Musical Comedy and the Persistence of Tradition in Melanesian Ethnography. Oceania 57: 271-293. (A. Carrier and J. G. Carrier.)

1987
History and Self-Conception in Ponam Society. Man 22: 111-131.

1989
Sociological Perspectives on Special Education. New Education 11: 21-31.

1990
Every Picture Tells a Story: Visual Alternatives to Oral Tradition in Ponam Society. Oral Tradition 5 (special issue on the South Pacific, Ruth Finnegan and Margaret Orbell, eds): 354-375. (J. G. Carrier and A. Carrier.)
Reprinted in: Finnegan, Ruth and Margaret Orbell (eds) 1995. South Pacific Oral Traditions. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

1990
Gifts in a World of Commodities: The Ideology of the Perfect Gift in American Society. Social Analysis 29: 19-37.

1990
Reconciling Commodities and Personal Relations in Industrial Society. Theory and Society 19: 579-598.

1990
Special Education and the Explanation of Pupil Performance. Disability, Handicap & Society 5: 211-226.

1990
The Symbolism of Possession in Commodity Advertising. Man 25: 190-207.
Reprinted in: Miller, Daniel (ed.) 2001. Consumption. London: Routledge.

1991
Gifts, Commodities, and Social Relations: A Maussian View of Exchange. Sociological Forum 6: 119-136.

1992
Emerging Alienation in Production: A Maussian History. Man 27: 539-558.
Reprinted in: De Neve, Geert, Massimiliano Mollona and Jonathan Parry (eds) 2010. Industrial Life and Work: An Ethnographic Reader (LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology). Oxford: Berg.

1992
The Gift in Theory and Practice in Melanesia: A Note on the Centrality of Gift Exchange. Ethnology 31: 186-193.

1992
Occidentalism: The World Turned Upside-Down. American Ethnologist 19: 195-212.

1994
Alienating Objects: The Emergence of Alienation in Retail Trade. Man 29: 359-380.

1997
Consumption and Political Economy. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2: 355-373. (J. G. Carrier and Josiah Heyman.)

2001
Limits of Environmental Understanding: Action and Constraint. Journal of Political Ecology 8: 25-43.

2001
Social Aspects of Abstraction. Social Anthropology 9: 243-256.

2003
Mind, Gaze and Engagement: Understanding the Environment. Journal of Material Culture 8: 5-23.

2004
Ecotourism and Authenticity: Getting Away from it All? Current Anthropology 45: 483-498. (Paige West and J. G. Carrier.)

2005
Bursting the Bubble: The Socio-Cultural Context of Ecotourism. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11: 315-333. (J. G. Carrier and Donald Macleod.)

2008
Think Locally, Act Globally: The Political Economy of Ethical Consumption. Research in Economic Anthropology 28 (Special issue: Hidden Hands in the Market: Ethnographies of Fair Trade, Ethical Consumption and Corporate Social Responsibility (eds) Geert De Neve, Peter Luetchford, Jeff Pratt and Donald Wood): 31-51.

2010
Protecting the Environment the Natural Way: Ethical Consumption and Commodity Fetishism. Antipode 42 (Special lissue: Conservation and Capitalism (eds) Dan Brockington and Rosaleen Duffy): 668-685.
Reprinted in: Brockington, Dan and Rosleen Duffy (eds) 2010. Conservation and Capitalism, pp. 203-220. Oxford: Wiley and Sons.

2012
Anthropology after the Crisis. Focaal 64: 115–28.

2012
Dollars Making Sense: Understanding Nature in Capitalism. Environment and Society 3: 5–18.

2012
The Trouble with Class. European Journal of Sociology 53 (3): 263–84.

2013
Business Literature and Understandings of Business. Journal of Business Anthropology 2 (2): 120-32.

2015
Seeing Small and Thinking Large: Changing Anthropological Orientations. Paideuma 61: 275–89.

Books and Reports

1984
Education and Society in a Manus Village. (Educational Research Unit Research Report 47.) Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea.

1986
Learning Disability: Social Class and the Construction of Inequality in American Education. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.

1988
The Ponam Fish Freezer: Analysis of the Failure of a Small-scale Development Project in Manus Province. (Department of Anthropology and Sociology Occas¬ional Paper Number 4.) Port Moresby: Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Papua New Guinea.

1989
Wage, Trade and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State. Berkeley: University of California Press. (J. G. Carrier and A. Carrier.)

1991
Structure and Process in a Melanesian Society: Ponam's Progress in the Twentieth Century. London: Harwood Academic. (A. Carrier and J. G. Carrier.)

1992
History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology. Berkeley: University of California Press. (J. G. Carrier, ed.)

1995
Gifts and Commodities: Exchange and Western Capitalism since 1700. London: Routledge.

1995
Occidentalism: Images of the West. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (J. G. Carrier, ed.)

1996
Melanesian Modernities. Lund: Lund University Press. (Jonathan Friedman and J. G. Carrier, eds.)

1997
Meanings of the Market: The Free Market in Western Culture. Oxford: Berg. (J. G. Carrier, ed.)

1998
Virtualism: A New Political Economy. Oxford: Berg. (J. G. Carrier and Daniel Miller, eds)

2004
Confronting Environments: Local Environmental Understanding in a Globalising World. Walnut Creek, Cal.: AltaMira. (J. G. Carrier, ed.)

2005
A Handbook of Economic Anthropology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. (J. G. Carrier, ed.) (Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2006.)

2009
Surroundings, Selves and Others: The Political Economy of Environment and Identity. Landscape Research 34 (special issue). (Paige West & J. G. Carrier, eds.)

2009
Virtualism, Governance and Practice: Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation. Oxford: Berghahn Books. (J. G. Carrier and Paige West, eds.)

2010
Tourism, Power and Culture: Anthropological Insights. Bristol: Channel View. (Donald Macleod and J. G. Carrier, eds.)

2012
Ethical Consumption: Social Value and Economic Practice. New York: Berghahn. (J. G. Carrier and Peter Luetchford, eds.)

2012
A Handbook of Economic Anthropology, Second Edition. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. (J. G. Carrier, ed.)

2013
The Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology. London: Berg. (J.G. Carrier and Deborah B. Gewertz, eds)

2015
Anthropologies of Class: Power, Practice, and Inequality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (J. G. Carrier and Don Kalb, eds.)

2016
After the Crisis: Anthropological Thought, Neoliberalism and the Aftermath. London: Routledge. (J. G. Carrier, ed.) (forthcoming)

Others

1982
Conservation and Conceptions of the Environment: A Manus Province Case Study. Pp. 39-43 in Louise Morauta, John Pernetta and William Heaney (eds), Traditional Conservation in Papua New Guinea: Implications for Today. (Monograph 16.) Port Moresby: Institute for Applied Social and Economic Research.

1984
Comparative Special Education: Ideology, Differentiation and Allocation in England and the United States. Pp. 35-64 in Len Barton and Sally Tomlinson (eds), Special Education and Social Interests. London: Croom Helm.

1985
Education and the Transformation of Traditional Inequalities in Manus Province. Pp. 86-97 in Mark Bray and Peter Smith (eds), Education and Social Stratification in Papua New Guinea. Melbourne: Longman Cheshire.

1986
Reply to Milofsky's Comments on ‘Sociology and Special Education’. American Journal of Education 94: 322-327.

1987
Marine Tenure and Conservation in Papua New Guinea: Problems in In-terpretation. Pp. 142-167 in Bonnie McCay and James Acheson (eds), The Question of the Commons: The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

1987
The Politics of Early Learning Disability Theory. Pp. 47-66 in Barry Franklin (ed.), Learning Disability: Dissenting Essays. London: Falmer Press.

1989
Marine Tenure and Economic Reward on Ponam Island, Manus Province. Pp. 94-120 in John Cordell (ed.), A Sea of Small Boats: Customary Law and Territoriality in the World of Inshore Fishing. Cambridge, Mass: Cultural Survival. (J. G. Carrier and A. Carrier.)

1992
Approaches to Articulation. Pp. 116-143 in J. G. Carrier (ed.), History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology. Berkeley: University of California Press.

1992
Introduction. Pp. 1-37 in J. G. Carrier (ed.), History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology. Berkeley: University of California Press.

1993
The Rituals of Christmas Giving. Pp. 55-74 in Daniel Miller (ed.), Unwrapping Christmas. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1995
Introduction. Pp. 1-32 in J. G. Carrier (ed.), Occidentalism: Images of the West. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1995
Maussian Occidentalism: Gift and Commodity Systems. Pp. 85-108 in J. G. Carrier (ed.), Occidentalism: Images of the West. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1996
Western Impact on Ponam Patrilines. Pp. 142-161 in Jonathan Friedman and J. G. Carrier (eds), Melanesian Modernities. Lund: Lund University Press.

1997
Introduction. Pp. 1-67 in J. G. Carrier (ed.), Meanings of the Market: The Free Market in Western Culture. Oxford: Berg.

1997
Mr Smith, meet Mr Hawken. Pp. 129-157 in J. G. Carrier (ed.), Meanings of the Market: The Free Market in Western Culture. London: Berg.

1998
Abstraction in Western Economic Practice. Pp. 25-47 in J. G. Carrier and Daniel Miller (eds), Virtualism: A New Political Economy. Oxford: Berg.

1998
Introduction. Pp. 1-24 in J. G. Carrier and Daniel Miller (eds), Virtualism: A New Political Economy. Oxford: Berg.

1998
Property and Social Relations in Melanesian Anthropology. Pp. 85-103 in C. M. Hann (ed.), Property Relations: Renewing the Anthropological Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1999
From Private Virtue to Public Vice: Anthropology and Economy. Pp. 24-47 in Henrietta Moore (ed.), Anthropological Theory Today. Cambridge: Polity Press. (J. G. Carrier and Daniel Miller.)

1999
People who Can be Friends: Notions of the Self and of Social Relationships. Pp. 21-38 in Sandra Bell and Simon Coleman (eds), Only Connect: The Anthropology of Friendship. Oxford: Berg.

2001
Diplomacy and Indirection, Constraint and Authority. Pp. 290-301 in Joy Hendry and Bill Watson (eds), An Anthropology of Indirect Communication. London: Routledge.

2003
Biography, Ecology, Political Economy: Seascape and Conflict in Jamaica. Pp. 210-228 in Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern (eds) Landscape, Memory and History. London: Pluto Press.

2004
Environmental Conservation and Institutional Environments in Jamaica. Pp. 119-141 in Confronting Environments: Local Environmental Understanding in a Globalising World. Walnut Creek, Cal.: AltaMira. (J. G. Carrier, ed.)

2004
Introduction. Pp. 1-29 in Confronting Environments: Local Environmental Under-standing in a Globalising World. Walnut Creek, Cal.: AltaMira. (J. G. Carrier, ed.)

2005
Introduction; section introductions. In A Handbook of Economic Anthropology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. (J. G. Carrier, ed.)

2006
Exchange. Pp. 373-383 in Christopher Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Kuechler, Michael Rowlands and Patricia Spyer (eds) Handbook of Material Culture. London: Sage.

2006
The Limits of Culture: Political Economy and the Anthropology of Consumption. Pp. 271-289 in Frank Trentmann (ed.) The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World. Oxford: Berg.

2007
Ethical Consumption (editorial). Anthropology Today 23 (4): 1-2.

2009
Introduction. In Paige West and J. G. Carrier (eds), Surroundings, Selves and Others: The Political Economy of Environment and Identity. Landscape Research 34 (special issue): 157-170. (J. G. Carrier & Paige West.)

2009
Introduction. Pp. 1-23 in J. G. Carrier and Paige West (eds), Virtualism, Governance and Practice: Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation. Oxford: Berghahn Books. (J. G. Carrier & Paige West.)

2009
Market and Economy in Environmental Conservation in Jamaica. Pp. 240-255 in Christopher Hann and Keith Hart (eds) Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2009
Simplicity in Economic Anthropology: Persuasion, Form and Substance. Pp. 15-30 in Stephen Gudeman (ed.) Economic Persuasions. Oxford: Berghahn.

2010
Introduction. Pp. 3-19 in Donald Macleod and J. G. Carrier (eds) Tourism, Power and Culture: Anthropological Insights. Bristol: Channel View. (D. Macleod and J. G. Carrier.)

2010
Tourism and Culture: Presentation, Promotion and the Manipulation of Image. Pp. 107-114 in Donald Macleod and J. G. Carrier (eds) Tourism, Power and Culture: Anthropological Insights. Bristol: Channel View.

2010
Tourism and its Images of Tourists, Traders and Fishers in Jamaica. Pp. 174-196 in Donald Macleod and J. G. Carrier (eds) Tourism, Power and Culture: Anthropological Insights. Bristol: Channel View. (Gunilla Sommer and J. G. Carrier.)

2012
Introduction. In J. G. Carrier and Peter Luetchford (eds). Ethical Consumption: Social Value and Economic Practice. New York: Berghahn.

2012
Conclusion. In J. G. Carrier and Peter Luetchford (eds). Ethical Consumption: Social Value and Economic Practice. New York: Berghahn.

2012
Introduction to Section 1, Introduction to Section 2. In J. G. Carrier and Peter Luetchford (eds). Ethical Consumption: Social Value and Economic Practice. New York: Berghahn.

2012
Introduction; section introductions. In A Handbook of Economic Anthropology, Second Edition. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. (J. G. Carrier, ed.)

2013
Introduction. In The Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology. London: Berg. (J.G. Carrier and Deborah B. Gewertz, eds)

2014
Retrospect. In E. Paul Durrenberger and Gísli Pálsson (eds), Gambling Debt: Iceland’s Rise and Fakk in the Global Economy. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.

2014
Economic Deviance (editorial). Anthropology Today 30 (6): 1-2.

2015
The Concept of Class. In J. G. Carrier and Don Kalb (eds), Anthropologies of Class: Power, Practice, and Inequality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2016
Anthropology and Neoliberalism. In J. G. Carrier (ed.), After the Crisis: Anthropological Thought, Neoliberalism and the Aftermath. London: Routledge. (forthcoming)

Neoliberal Anthropology. In J. G. Carrier (ed.), After the Crisis: Anthropological Thought, Neoliberalism and the Aftermath. London: Routledge. (forthcoming)

Economic Wrong and Economic Debate in the Neoliberal Era. In David Whyte and Jörg Wiegratz (eds), Neo-liberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud. London: Routledge. (forthcoming)

2017
Alienation, Class, Commodity, Gift. In Hilary Callan (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. (forthcoming)