Kirsten W. Endres is Head of the Research Group "The Political and Economic Anthropology of Southeast Asia" at the Department "Resilience and Transformation in Eurasia" of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/S. Her previous publications include Performing the Divine. Mediums, Markets and Modernity in Urban Vietnam (NIAS Press, 2011) and the co-edited volume Traders in Motion. Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace (Cornell University Press, 2018).

"It is a pleasure to read manuscripts of this quality. The author is an accomplished story teller and she succeeds admirably in the task she sets herself." Chris Gregory, Australian National University, Canberra

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNote on Language and TranslationIntroduction: Market FrictionsChapter 1. TownChapter 2. MarketChapter 3. NeigboringChapter 4. IllegalityChapter 5. MoralityChapter 6. RenewalEpilogueReferencesIndex

Kirsten W. Endres is Head of the Research Group "The Political and Economic Anthropology of Southeast Asia" at the Department "Resilience and Transformation in Eurasia" of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/S. Her previous publications include Performing the Divine. Mediums, Markets and Modernity in Urban Vietnam (NIAS Press, 2011) and the co-edited volume Traders in Motion. Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace (Cornell University Press, 2018).

"It is a pleasure to read manuscripts of this quality. The author is an accomplished story teller and she succeeds admirably in the task she sets herself." Chris Gregory, Australian National University, Canberra

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNote on Language and TranslationIntroduction: Market FrictionsChapter 1. TownChapter 2. MarketChapter 3. NeigboringChapter 4. IllegalityChapter 5. MoralityChapter 6. RenewalEpilogueReferencesIndex

Kirsten W. Endres is Head of the Research Group "The Political and Economic Anthropology of Southeast Asia" at the Department "Resilience and Transformation in Eurasia" of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/S. Her previous publications include Performing the Divine. Mediums, Markets and Modernity in Urban Vietnam (NIAS Press, 2011) and the co-edited volume Traders in Motion. Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace (Cornell University Press, 2018).

"It is a pleasure to read manuscripts of this quality. The author is an accomplished story teller and she succeeds admirably in the task she sets herself." Chris Gregory, Australian National University, Canberra

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNote on Language and TranslationIntroduction: Market FrictionsChapter 1. TownChapter 2. MarketChapter 3. NeigboringChapter 4. IllegalityChapter 5. MoralityChapter 6. RenewalEpilogueReferencesIndex