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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Author / Creator:	Fotta, Martin, author.
Imprint:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018] ©2018
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Romanies -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- Economic conditions. Moneylenders -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) Economic history. Moneylenders. Romanies -- Economic conditions. Bahia (Brazil : State) -- Economic conditions. Brazil -- Bahia (State)
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11737099

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ISBN:	9783319964096 3319964097 3319964089 9783319964089
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 8, 2018).
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: 3319964089 9783319964089

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