Health, money, commerce, and wealth : anthropological perspectives

Volume 43 of Research in Economic Anthropology covers an extensive range of important topics with an equally wide geographic perspective. Grounded in fieldwork undertaken in West Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America, articles are broadly concerned with money, commerce, and wealth, with...

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Other Authors Wood, Donald C. (Editor), Swamy, Raja (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024.
SeriesResearch in economic anthropology ; 43.
Subjects
Economic anthropology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781835490358
DOI10.1108/S0190-1281202443
Physical Description1 online resource (168 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Anthropological Perspectives on Health, Money, Commerce, and Wealth / Donald C. Wood and Raja Swamy
  • Chapter 2. Distressed in Hope: School Fees and the Structural Shaping of Health in Upper West Ghana / Jessica R. Ham
  • Chapter 3. In Pursuit of Stability? An Ethnographic Inquiry of Cryptocurrency Trading in Istanbul / Wesam Hassan
  • Chapter 4. When Face is Your FICO Score: Informal Behaviors of a Micro-Lender in a Bangkok Neighborhood / David A. Dayton, Nathan Draper, and Maureen Snow Andrade
  • Chapter 5. An Anthropologist Goes Offshore, or, Creating an Actor-Network Among Finance Elites / Samuel Weeks
  • Chapter 6. Doing Business in a Pandemic: Agency and Resilience Among U.S. Nonemployer Businesses / Dawn Rivers
  • Chapter 7. People, Objects and Money: Some Notes on the Introduction and Circulation of Objects Among the Xambioá (Central Brazil) / Helena Moreira Schiel
  • Chapter 8. A Proposal to Eliminate Poverty by Including the Poor as Shareholders in Wealth Producing Companies / Sidney M. Greenfield.

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