Overview
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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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Settlements, Personhood, and the Centrality of Households
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Calon Assimilation of the Local Economic Environment
Keywords
- 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
- Migrant economies
- Romanies in Latin America
- Ciganos
- Itinerant trade
- Masculinity and economics
About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Itinerant Trade to Moneylending in the Era of Financial Inclusion
Book Subtitle: Households, Debts and Masculinity among Calon Gypsies of Northeast Brazil
Authors: Martin Fotta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96409-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96408-9Published: 10 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07187-5Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96409-6Published: 27 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 250
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Economics, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Labor Economics, Latin American and Caribbean Economics, Economic Growth