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"This volume will be a valuable contribution to economic anthropology. The empirically rigorous cases reveal just why the methods that we associate with anthropology are fundamental to our understanding of the economy....[It] urges us to rethink what 'the crisis' - the aftermath of the 2008 financial meltdown - really is." · Erik Bähre, Leiden University "This series is more an agenda-setting enterprise than a mere book series. It promises to be the most important scholarly initiative to come from the global south in a very long time; one that is sure to change how we think about the world at large, about economy and humanity." · John Comaroff, Harvard University The Cold War was fought between "state socialism" and "the free market." That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money continues today, unfolding in new and unforeseen ways during the economic crisis. Nine case studies -- from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil, and Atlantic Africa - examine economic life from the perspective of ordinary people in places that are normally marginal to global discourse, covering a range of class positions from the bottom to the top of society. The authors of these cas

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Author

Keith Hart (editor); John Sharp (editor)

Publisher

Berghahn Books, Incorporated

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781782384687

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Science, Anthropology