Keith Hart (anthropologist)

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Keith Hart (1943, Manchester, England - ) is a Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmith's College, University of London. His main research has been on Africa and the African diaspora. He has taught at numerous universities, most significantly at Cambridge where he was director of the African Studies Centre. He has contributed to the concept of the informal economy to development studies and has published widely on economic anthropology. He is the author of Money in an Unequal World. One recurrent theme of his work has been the relationship between movement and identity in the transition from national to world society.

Principal publications

Books include

The Political Economy of West African Agriculture (1982)
The Memory Bank: money in an unequal world (2000)
The Hit Man’s Dilemma: or business, personal and impersonal (2005)
The African Revolution: Africa in the 21st century world (in preparation)

Articles include:

Informal income opportunities and urban employment in Ghana (1973)
On commoditization (1982)
Heads or tails? Two sides of the coin (1986)
Kinship, contract and trust: the economic organisation of migrants in an African city slum (1988)
Notes towards an anthropology of the internet (2004)
The political economy of food in an unequal world (2004)
Agrarian civilization and world society (2006)
Marcel Mauss : in pursuit of the whole (2007)
Money is always personal and impersonal (2007)
The persuasive power of money (2008)
Intellectual property (2008)