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OverviewVolume 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 special concentrations on health, work, and uncertainty. Featured topics include: Connections between psychosocial health and anguish over educational expenses in Ghana's Upper West Region The upsurge of cryptocurrency trading in Istanbul, Turkey, in the face of uncertainty and where concern for the future translates into action in the present Personal transactions embedded in social relations from the perspective of a small-scale informal lender in Bangkok, Thailand The activities of finance elites in Luxembourg, now a major Western European center of commerce Work strategies of people who identify as self-employed in North Carolina and upstate New York during the COVID-19 pandemic Recent transformations in the lives of the Xambioa people in Brazil, including a reminder of how the sociocultural meaning of money can often take precedence over its intrinsic value or utility A novel proposal for eradicating poverty on a global scale Exploring the interconnectedness and uncertainty of today's economic world, this volume thoughtfully considers core themes, current trends, and possibilities for the future. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Donald C. Wood (Akita University, Japan) , Raja Swamy (University of Tennessee, USA)Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited ISBN: 9781835490341ISBN 10: 1835490344 Pages: 168 Publication Date: 30 May 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsChapter 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. GreenfieldReviewsAuthor InformationDonald C. Wood is Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Education at the Graduate School of Medicine, Akita University, Japan. Raja Swamy is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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