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Individual and Social Adaptions to Human Vulnerability (Hardcover)
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Individual and Social Adaptions to Human Vulnerability (Hardcover)
Series: Research in Economic Anthropology
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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 leading articles
both take up the issue of microfinance; Daniel Murphy examines the
influences of this in the lives of pastoralists in Mongolia, and
Megan Hinrichsen explores related processes among vendors in Quito,
Ecuador. Next, Elena Sischarenco looks at ways of dealing with
vulnerability in the northern Italian construction industry. Sarah
Lyon investigates smallholders' experiences with, and adaptations
to, the coffee rust disaster in Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as the
functions of fair trade organizations. Rounding out the first half
of the volume is Raja Swamy's analysis of post-tsunami
reconstruction in Tamil Nadu, India. The second half starts with
Janneke Verheijen's investigation of women's survival strategies in
rural Malawi, southeast Africa, and Lai Wo's study of intimate
relationships and transactions between Western men and Southeast
Asian women in Hong Kong. Courtney Lewis explores political and
economic sovereignty among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in
North Carolina, USA. Finally, the volume turns to the past with
Kari Henquinet's examination of the evolution of American
faith-based overseas development aid projects in the 20th century,
and with Serge Svizzero's and Clement Tisdell's analysis of Early
Bronze Age desert kite use for trapping gazelles in parts of
Southwest Asia. Ultimately, it is hoped that this and other
scholarly investigations into human vulnerability will lead to
better preventive and curative measures, for an imperfect world.
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