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Entrepreneurship‐As‐Struggle: The Crises and Politics of Entrepreneurial Becomings

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Entrepreneurship among marginalized people in Bangladesh involves social, political, and cultural struggle against immediate crises of poverty and enduring crises of class, caste, religious, and gendered exclusions. Drawing on 25 months of ethnographic research among entrepreneurs in rural Bangladesh and the life stories of 137 entrepreneurs ...
Grace Mueller, Julia Qermezi Huang, Jacqui Bassett, Paige Chisholm, Hanna Geary   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Healing hands: a traditional bone-setting practice in South Wollo, Kelala Woreda Ethiopia. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed
Tadesse GM, Kassaw E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sharing Debt and Houses: Strategies for Surviving Late Capitalism Among Aging Ghanaian Migrants in Canada

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The appropriation of commodities, or decommodification, occurs alongside processes of commodification as part of the diverse economies coexisting with capitalism. Drawing on research among aging Ghanaian immigrants living in Canada, I examine their attempts to decommodify housing within unaffordable housing markets as part of cultural projects
Cati Coe
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient genomes from eastern Kazakhstan reveal dynamic genetic legacy of Inner Eurasian hunter-gatherers. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Gill H, Seidualy M, Lee J, Lee J, Moon H, Walter A, Bianco RA, Kurmangaliev A, Rakhmankulov E, Samashev Z, Aitkali A, Kiyasbek G, Tashmanbetova Z, Zhuniskhanov A, Krause J, Hermes T, Zhabagin M, Doumani Dupuy P, Warinner C, Jeong C.   +19 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Was the Inca Economy Based on “Protomoney”? Or, Why Accounting Systems Should Not Be Conflated With Concepts of Exchange Value

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The khipu knotted string records in the ancient Andes were accounting systems, but they did not indicate any concepts of commensurability or exchange value. They were not incipient money; instead, monetized commerce appears to have predated the economic organization of the Inca society. The article begins by tracing the emergence of coinage in
Alf Hornborg
wiley   +1 more source

Doing Science With Our Grandmother's WISDOM: A Worldview Integrating Sociality, Diversity, and Observant Meaning-Making. [PDF]

Am J Hum Biol
Dajani R, Glass D, Fuentes A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Micropolitics of Secrecy: Traders' Enactments of Expertise After the Failed Military Coup in Turkey

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conducting ethnographic research in financial institutions is challenging because secrecy is pivotal for traders to maintain their expert image. It became more difficult in Turkey after the failed coup in 2016 as Turkish President Erdoğan increasingly weaponized conspiracies that are historically and politically rooted in Turkish society to ...
Deniz Coral‐Irwin
wiley   +1 more source

A solid base for scaling up: the structure of numeration systems. [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
Pelland JC, Greenhill SJ, Walworth M, Bender A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Coin's Third Side: Illiberal Money and the Sociality of a Community Currency

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Classic work in the analysis of money has emphasized the role of the state and the market in giving money its value. This article seeks to build on work that has emphasized the coin's “third side,” in which society serves as a source of monetary value.
Daromir Rudnyckyj
wiley   +1 more source

Memory, innovation and vertical learning. [PDF]

PLoS Comput Biol
Ammar M, Fogarty L, Kandler A.
europepmc   +1 more source