The contributions to this extensive work cover a broad range of topics connected to networks, resources, and economic action. They are based on ethnographic field research in East and Southeast Asia, Oceania, Africa, North, Middle and South America as well as Europe. They took place as well in rural as in urban spaces. They investigate in all often contrary and conflicting directions a large variety of networks, economic behaviour and resource management.

The contributions to this extensive work cover a broad range of topics connected to networks, resources, and economic action. They are based on ethnographic field research in East and Southeast Asia, Oceania, Africa, North, Middle and South America as well as Europe. They took place as well in rural as in urban spaces. They investigate in all often contrary and conflicting directions a large variety of networks, economic behaviour and resource management.