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Book SynopsisVolume 41 of Research in Economic Anthropology explores a wide range of topics of interest to economic anthropology. The opening paper presents a novel approach to anthropological-economic infrastructural research in England, specifically London’s Thames Tideway Tunnel. The volume’s first section consists of four papers that are tied together by two common threads: the roles of money in social ties between people, and moral concerns regarding these and other roles and uses of money in society. The section covers commercial surrogate mothers in Russia, social welfare provision in Pakistan, the management of a communal fund within a school alumni association in South Korea, and a credit scheme’s impact on women in Nigeria.
Part two focuses on two basic necessities of human life—food and clothing - examining a New Zealand food security initiative that rescues “waste” food, modern transformations of a pre-owned clothing market in Hamburg, Germany, and Muslim fashion retail business in the same country’s capital city, Berlin.
Finally, the volume closes with a third section that fixes an anthropological lens on contemporary developments in Latin America, analyzing the larger fair trade movement and its particular manifestations and implications in Oaxaca, Mexico, the cost-effectiveness of the reintegration of ex-combatants in Colombia, and patron-client relations in Brazil and how these have been politically perceived and presented by domestic and foreign intellectuals and academics, respectively.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Anthropological Investigations Into Infrastructure, Money, Community And Morality, Food And Clothing, And New Developments In Latin America; Donald C. Wood
Paper 1. London’s “Super Sewer”: A Case Study For The Interdisciplinary Possibilities Of Anthropologists And Economists Investigating Infrastructure Together; Benjamin O.L. Bowles, Kate Bayliss, and Elisa Van Waeyenberge
PART I MONEY, COMMUNITY AND MORALITY
Paper 2. A Responsible Worker and A Caring Mother: Experiences of Russian Commercial Surrogates; Olga Doletskaya, Maria Denisova, and Oksana Dorofeeva
Paper 3. God, Gift and Charity: The Case Of Zakat And Dasvandh In The Local Governance Of Social Welfare Provision In Pakistan; Muhammad Salman Khan
Paper 4. Money for Belongingness: The Account Book and The Management of The Communal Fund of A High School Alumni Association In South Korea; You-Kyung Byun
Paper 5. “Microcredit Schemes of Tension”: Women and The Economic Violence of Credit Mobilization in Ibadan, Nigeria; Olubukola Olayiwola
PART II FOOD AND CLOTHING
Paper 6. The Multiple and Changing Values of Rescued Food: Case Study Of A Food Security Initiative In Urban New Zealand; Jessica Mannette
Paper 7. Digitalizing Local Markets: The Secondhand Market for Pre-Owned Clothing in Hamburg, Germany; Heike Derwanz
Paper 8. Doing Difference: The Performance of Order in The Market for Islamic Fashion In Berlin; Robert Birnbauer
PART III NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA
Paper 9. Rethinking Fair Trade: Narratives and Counter Narratives of Poverty and Partnerships; Sarah Lyon
Paper 10. Assessing Cost-Effectiveness in Reintegrating Ex-Combatants in Colombia; Colleen Alena O'Brien
Paper 11. A Tale of a Much Maligned But Persistent Cultural Pattern: Networks Of People Giving To Receive Something In Exchange; Sidney M. Greenfield
