Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume then continues with a rich set of contemporary ethnographic case studies from Europe, Asia and Africa. Authors explore the ways in which finance inserts itself into relationships of class and kinship,...

The limits of liminality : anthropological approaches to unemployment in the U.S. / Carrie M. Lane -- The limits to quantitative thinking : engaging economics on the unemployed / David Karjanen -- Occupation / Jong Bum Kwon -- The rise of the precariat? : unemployment and social identity in a...

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...