From Itinerant Trade to Moneylending in the Era of Financial Inclusion
Households, Debts and Masculinity among Calon Gypsies of Northeast Brazil
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Beschreibung
This book analyses how Calon Gypsies in Brazil have responded to global financial transformations and shifted their economic practices from itinerant trade to moneylending. 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. It is important reading for economic anthropologists, cultural economists and all those interested in processes of financialisation from a local perspective, as well as those fascinated by informal economies, how exchange and debt relate to social and political marginality, and how financial credit becomes 'domesticated' by communities.
Martin Fotta is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethnology 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.
This book analyses how Calon Gypsies in Brazil have responded to global financial transformations and shifted their economic practices from itinerant trade to moneylending. 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. It is important reading for economic anthropologists, cultural economists and all those interested in processes of financialisation from a local perspective, as well as those fascinated by informal economies, how exchange and debt relate to social and political marginality, and how financial credit becomes 'domesticated' by communities.
Explores how itinerant traders maintain their social identities in the era of the global financial integration Traces how Calon gypsies maintain autonomy by means of debt-creating exchanges Analyzes how informal systems of credit exchange are being transformed in the twenty-first century, using Romanies in Latin America as a case Challenges the Eurocentric view that persistence of Gypsy identity among the Calon is an outcome of their rejection by the majorities
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Martin Fotta
Themen in »From Itinerant Trade to Moneylending in the Era of Financial Inclusion«
Economic Anthropology Household economics Family economics Calon gypsies Ethnic service providers Global financial integration Globalisation Roma and gypsy Ethnic credit providers Moneylending Non-Gypsies Jurons Householding Futuro Economic mobility