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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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Authors:
  1. Martin Fotta

    1. Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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  • Explores how itinerant traders maintain their social identities in the era of the global financial integration

  • Traces how Calon gypsies maintain autonomy by means of debt-creating exchanges

  • Analyzes how informal systems of credit exchange are being transformed in the twenty-first century, using Romanies in Latin America as a case

  • Challenges the Eurocentric view that persistence of Gypsy identity among the Calon is an outcome of their rejection by the majorities

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Consolidation of the Cigano Moneylending Niche in the Early Twenty-First Century

    • Martin Fotta
    Pages 1-31

  3. Epilogue: The Crisis, the Stranger, and the State

    • Martin Fotta
    Pages 209-224

  4. Settlements, Personhood, and the Centrality of Households

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. Chapter 1 ‘There Are Ciganos in the Town’

      • Martin Fotta
      Pages 35-64

    3. Chapter 2 Household Fixity As a Process

      • Martin Fotta
      Pages 65-90

    4. Chapter 3 Makers of Their Futures

      • Martin Fotta
      Pages 91-119

  5. Calon Assimilation of the Local Economic Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Chapter 4 Deferred Payments and the Expanding Moment of Caloninity

      • Martin Fotta
      Pages 123-149

    3. Chapter 5 Lending Money to Jurons

      • Martin Fotta
      Pages 151-177

    4. Chapter 6 Moneylending Niche As Householding

      • Martin Fotta
      Pages 179-207

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 225-250
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Martin Fotta

About the author

Martin Fotta is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. His key areas of research are economy and value, ethnic economies, Nomadic strategies, masculinity and gender, money, credit and debt, cash transfers, and constructions of ethnicity.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: From Itinerant Trade to Moneylending in the Era of Financial Inclusion

  • Book Subtitle: Households, Debts and Masculinity among Calon Gypsies of Northeast Brazil

  • Authors: Martin Fotta

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96409-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96408-9Published: 10 October 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07187-5Published: 22 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96409-6Published: 27 September 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 250

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cultural Economics, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Labor Economics, Latin American and Caribbean Economics, Economic Growth

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