From Itinerant Trade to Moneylending in the Era of Financial Inclusion: Households, Debts and Masculinity among Calon Gypsies of Northeast Brazil 1st ed. Edition Martin Fotta

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3319964089
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3319964089
• Author: Martin Fotta

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.

Table contents:

Introduction: Consolidation of the Cigano Moneylending Niche in the Early Twenty-First Century
Part I. Settlements, Personhood, and the Centrality of Households
Chapter 1 ‘There Are Ciganos in the Town’
Chapter 2 Household Fixity As a Process
Chapter 3 Makers of Their Futures
Part II. Calon Assimilation of the Local Economic Environment
Chapter 4 Deferred Payments and the Expanding Moment of Caloninity
Chapter 5 Lending Money to Jurons
Chapter 6 Moneylending Niche As Householding
Epilogue: The Crisis, the Stranger, and the State

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