Despite the pervasiveness of barter across societies, this mode of transaction has largely escaped the anthropologist’s gaze. Drawing on data from fairs in th

Primarily on the basis of ethnographic case-studies from around the world, this volume links investigations of work to questions of personal and professional id

Addressing the infrastructural, legal and moral complexities in contemporary world trade, this book uses an ethnographic analysis of the interface of multinatio

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