Individual and social adaptations to human vulnerability /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Wood, Donald C. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
• Σειρά: Research in economic anthropology ; v. 38.
• Θέματα: Economic anthropology.; Social adjustment.; Social Science > Anthropology > General.; Anthropology.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.