Individual and social adaptations to human vulnerability
This volume of Research in Economic Anthropology, which presents ten peer-reviewed anthropological papers, celebrates the 40th anniversary of the series by taking a close look at human vulnerability: the ways in which people attempt to cope with it and barriers to successfully overcoming it.The two...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bingley, U.K.
Emerald Publishing Limited
2018
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| Series: | Research in economic anthropology
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| Collection: | Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Collection Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Prelims
- Introduction: individual and social adaptations to vulnerability
- "We're living from loan-to-loan": pastoral vulnerability and the cashmere-debt cycle in Mongolia
- Living within the narrative of microfinance: vulnerability, well-intentioned debt, and the individualization of social problems in Quito, Ecuador
- Being an entrepreneur and feeling vulnerable: encountering fragility in the construction business in the North of Italy
- Coping with coffee rust in Oaxaca, Mexico: vulnerability and the impact of fair trade on smallholders' adaptive capacity
- Fishers, vulnerability, and the political economy of dispossession and reconstruction in post-tsunami Tamil Nadu
- Managing meagre means and reciprocal reputations: women's everyday survival tactics in a Malawian village
- Intimate economy of vulnerability: transactional relationships between western expatriates and Southeast Asian domestic workers in Hong Kong's Wanchai
- Economic sovereignty in volatile times: eastern band of Cherokee Indians' strategies supporting economic stability
- American world visions of vulnerability: the sacred, the secular, and roots of evangelical American aid
- Socioeconomic development and changing reasons for using desert kites to kill gazelles
- Index