From Itinerant Trade to Moneylending in the Era of Financial Inclusion

Households, Debts and Masculinity among Calon Gypsies of Northeast Brazil

AvMartin Fotta

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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It also explores their role as ethnic credit providers, offering rare insight into the financial lives of poor and lower-middle-class Brazilians.More broadly, this volume examines how ethnic difference is created in a context where fixed and collective structures supporting ethnic identity are missing.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-10-10
Mått:148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt:458 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:250
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319964089

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Mikroekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Martin Fotta is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. His key areas of research are economy and value, ethnic economies, Nomadic strategies, masculinity and gender, money, credit and debt, cash transfers, and constructions of ethnicity.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Introduction: Consolidation of the Cigano Moneylending Niche in the Early Twenty-first Century.- Part I: Settlements, Personhood and the Centrality of Households.- Chapter 2: ‘There are Ciganos in the Town’.- Chapter 3: Household Fixity as a Process.- Chapter 4: Makers of their Futures.- Part II: Assimilation of the Local Economic Environment into Calon Sociality.- Chapter 5: Deferred Payments and the Expanding Moment of Caloninity.- Chapter 6: Lending Money to Jurons.- Chapter 7: Moneylending Niche as Householding.- Chapter 8: Epilogue: The Crisis, The Stranger, and The State.