From Itinerant Trade to Moneylending in the Era of Financial Inclusion Households, Debts and Masculinity among Calon Gypsies of Northeast Brazil /

• Main Author: Fotta, Martin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Culture-Economic aspects.; Anthropology.; Ethnology.; Labor economics.; Latin America-Economic conditions.; Economic growth.; Cultural Economics.; Cultural Anthropology.; Labor Economics.; Latin American and Caribbean Economics.; Economic Growth.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Consolidation of the Cigano Moneylending Niche in the Early Twenty-first Century
• Part I: Settlements, Personhood and the Centrality of Households
• Chapter 2: 'There are Ciganos in the Town'
• Chapter 3: Household Fixity as a Process
• Chapter 4: Makers of their Futures
• Part II: Assimilation of the Local Economic Environment into Calon Sociality
• Chapter 5: Deferred Payments and the Expanding Moment of Caloninity
• Chapter 6: Lending Money to Jurons
• Chapter 7: Moneylending Niche as Householding
• Chapter 8: Epilogue: The Crisis, The Stranger, and The State.