Prelims
Health, Money, Commerce, and Wealth
ISBN: 978-1-83549-034-1, eISBN: 978-1-83549-033-4
ISSN: 0190-1281
Publication date: 30 May 2024
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(2024), "Prelims", Wood, D.C. and Swamy, R. (Ed.) Health, Money, Commerce, and Wealth (Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 43), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xvii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0190-128120240000043009
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Copyright © 2024 Donald C. Wood and Raja Swamy. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited
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Health, Money, Commerce, and Wealth
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Research in Economic Anthropology
Volume 20 | Research in Economic Anthropology – Edited by B. L. Isaac |
Volume 21 | Social Dimensions in the Economic Process – Edited by N. Dannhaeuser and C. Werner |
Volume 22 | Anthropological Perspectives on Economic Development and Integration – Edited by N. Dannhaeuser and C. Werner |
Volume 23 | Socioeconomic Aspects of Human Behavioral Ecology – Edited by M. Alvard |
Volume 24 | Markets and Market Liberalization: Ethnographic Reflections – Edited by N. Dannhaeuser and C. Werner |
Volume 25 | Choice in Economic Contexts: Ethnographic and Theoretical Enquiries – Edited by D. Wood |
Volume 26 | The Economics of Health and Wellness: Anthropological Perspectives – Edited by D. Wood |
Volume 27 | Dimension of Ritual Economy – Edited by P. McAnany and E. C. Wells |
Volume 28 | Hidden Hands in the Market: Ethnographies of Fair Trade, Ethical Consumption and Corporate Social Responsibility – Edited by Donald Wood, Jeffrey Pratt, Peter Luetchford, and Geert De Neve |
Volume 29 | Economic Development, Integration, and Morality in Asia and the Americas – Edited by Donald C. Wood |
Volume 30 | Economic Action in Theory and Practice: Anthropological Investigations – Edited by Donald C. Wood |
Volume 31 | The Economics of Religion: Anthropological Approaches – Edited by Lionel Obadia and Donald C. Wood |
Volume 32 | Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and the Prehistoric Economies of Latin America – Edited by Donald C. Wood and Ty Matejowsky |
Volume 33 | Engaging With Capitalism: Cases From Oceania – Edited by Fiona McCormack and Kate Barclay |
Volume 34 | Production, Consumption, Business and the Economy: Structural Ideals and Moral Realities – Edited by Donald C. Wood |
Volume 35 | Climate Change, Culture, and Economics – Edited by Donald C. Wood |
Volume 36 | The Economics of Ecology, Exchange, and Adaptation: Anthropological Explorations – Edited by Donald C. Wood |
Volume 37 | Anthropological Considerations of Production, Exchange, Vending and Tourism – Edited by Donald C. Wood |
Volume 38 | Individual and Social Adaptations to Human Vulnerability – Edited by Donald C. Wood |
Volume 39 | The Politics and Ethics of the Just Price: Ethnographies of Market Exchange – Edited by Peter Luetchford and Giovanni Orlando |
Volume 40 | Anthropological Enquiries Into Policy, Debt, Business and Capitalism – Edited by Donald C. Wood |
Volume 41 | Infrastructure, Morality, Food and Clothing, and New Developments in Latin America – Edited by Donald C. Wood |
Volume 42 | Current Problems of the World Economy and International Trade – Edited by Elena G. Popkova and Inna V. Andronova |
Editorial Advisory Board
Jeffrey Cohen The Ohio State University, USA |
Lionel Obadia Université Lumière Lyon 2, France |
Geert De Neve University of Sussex, UK |
Noel B. Salazar KU Leuven, Belgium |
Jumpei Ichinosawa Miyagi Gakuin Women's University, Japan |
Cynthia Werner Texas A&M University, USA |
Ty Matejowsky University of Central Florida, USA |
Tamar Diana Wilson Independent Researcher |
Atsuro Morita Osaka University, Japan |
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Research in Economic Anthropology Volume 43
Health, Money, Commerce, and Wealth: Anthropological Perspectives
Edited by
Donald C. Wood
Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
And
Raja Swamy
University of Tennessee, USA
United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China
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Dedication
This volume of REA is dedicated to the memory of anthropologist Carolyn K. Lesorogol (1965–2023). Carolyn was a member of REA's Editorial Advisory Board since its 2014 formation, and was instrumental in forging a connection between REA and the Society for Economic Anthropology that year, as president of the latter. Furthermore, she published in REA and served as a peer review referee. A true friend of REA, Carolyn's contributions to the series are much appreciated, and she is fondly remembered.
About the Editors
Donald C. Wood is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Medicine, Akita University, Akita, Japan, where he has worked since completing a doctoral degree in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Tokyo in 2004. Prior to that, he studied anthropology under Norbert Dannhaeuser and Jeff Cohen at Texas A&M University. He spent more than 15 years researching social conditions at the Hachirogata reclaimed land area in Akita Prefecture, which culminated in the publication of Ogata-Mura: Sowing Dissent and Reclaiming Identity in a Japanese Farming Village, by Berghahn Books (NY) in 2012 (released in paperback in 2015). He has also investigated tourism and the effects of depopulation in the Akita region, and was a contributor to the multi-authored book, Japan's Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century (Cambria, 2011). In recent years he has been working on a translation of a book published in Japan in 1938, conducting ethnohistorical research in Northeastern Japan, and contributing articles to Kyoto Journal, Sapiens, and New Politics.
Raja Swamy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee. He is a social anthropologist with an interest in the political economy and political ecology of natural disasters, and his first book Building Back Better in India: Development, NGOs, and Artisanal Fishers after the 2004 Tsunami (University of Alabama Press, 2021) investigates the impact of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami on coastal artisanal fishers in India's Tamil Nadu state. Weaving together concerns with contemporary debates over “disaster capitalism,” humanitarianism, and neoliberalization, the book is an ethnographically grounded study of a reconstruction process that revealed in its clashing agendas the often-fraught dynamics undergirding the political agency of humanitarians seeking to do “good work,” and artisanal fishers resisting displacement and reasserting their claims to coastal land. Since 2017 he has been examining the complex politics of recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas, specifically examining the impacts of the disaster and its aftermath on communities of color already living with toxicity and social marginalization in Houston. Swamy's academic publications cover the role of NGOs and humanitarianism in disaster reconstruction, the spatial politics of reconstruction and resistance in the aftermath of a disaster, the contested meanings of vulnerability, ecologically unequal exchange, the humanitarian gift economy, and the uses of heritage tourism development as a disaster reconstruction strategy.
About the Contributors
Maureen Snow Andrade is a Professor in the Organizational Leadership Department at Utah Valley University. She has an EdD in Higher Education Leadership and holds the distinction of Principal Fellow from the Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom. She is a former Associate Vice president and Associate Dean and is currently serving as Assistant Department Chair. Her research interests include international student transitions, linguistic development, distance education, learning outcomes assessment, and leadership. She is a regular presenter at national and international conferences.
David A. Dayton is an Adjunct Professor at UVU who teaches Developing Business in China (MGMT 4620), Business Anthropology (ANTH 475R), Survey of International Business (MGMT 330G), and Introduction to Anthropology (ANTH 101G). He is the CEO of Silk Road International, a cross-culturally focused coaching and consulting firm. David speaks Thai and Mandarin. He has two MAs focusing on Urban and Corporate Cultures in Thailand, a PhD in Global Sociocultural Studies (Anthropology, Sociology, Geography), and an MBA (2023). He has worked with consulting firms, SOEs, media groups, schools, NGOs, and factories across Asia.
Nathan Draper has a BA-Int'l Relations and an MBA. Nathan has worked in various roles in Southeast Asia since 1988, including accounting, procurement, training, and program management. He currently works as a translator and consultant. Nathan resides in Bangkok, Thailand.
Sidney M. Greenfield is a Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is past President of the Association of Senior Anthropologists and the Association for the Anthropology of Consciousness of the American Anthropological Association. He presently is Co-chair of the Columbia University Seminars on Brazil, Studies in Religion and Contents and Methods in the Social Sciences. He has conducted ethnographic research in Barbados and New Bedford, Massachusetts, but mostly in Brazil, and ethnohistorical and historical research in Portugal and the Atlantic Islands on problems ranging from family and kinship, patronage and politics, the history of plantations and plantation slavery, and entrepreneurship to Spiritist surgery and healing, syncretized Brazilian religions such as Candomblé, Umbanda, and Kardecist Spiritism, and Evangelical Protestants in Brazilian politics. He has authored and/or edited nine books, produced, directed, and authored five video documentaries, and has published some 150 articles and reviews in books and professional journals. He is currently engaged in a research project with a Brazilian colleague examining religious entrepreneurship among Brazilian immigrants in New York City and several applied projects in a favela (slum) in the Northeastern Brazilian city of Fortaleza in which he and colleagues are working to improve the mental health of the members of the community and help them to raise their own food.
Jessica R. Ham is an environmental anthropologist working with the theoretical tools of feminist political ecology to understand how people relate to and interact with their environments to produce meaningful and healthy lives. To date, her work has centered on the ways smallholders in northern Ghana are contending with a changing climate as they strive to continue growing the food that nourishes a household. This work conceptualizes hunger as relational – produced at the interface of changing landscapes, agrarian political economies, foodways, and the body. Currently on faculty at Oxford College, Emory University's liberal arts college, most of Dr Ham's time and energy is dedicated to helping first and second year undergraduates see the power of learning to think like an anthropologist.
Wesam Hassan is a medical doctor who turned to anthropology, and is currently a doctoral candidate in social anthropology at the University of Oxford. She thinks through concepts of uncertainty, temporality, speculation, risk analysis, material and visual culture, and human techniques of negotiating everyday life precariousness. Her doctoral research is investigating speculative economic activities, gambling, and state-regulated games of chance activities in Turkey. Her MA research examined the biomedical uncertainty of HIV and AIDS, the experiences of HIV-positive mothers in Egypt, and the biopolitics of HIV and AIDS in Egypt post-2011. Hassan is also animated by visual and material culture and anthropology of consumption with focus on affective relations with practices (shopping, money, gambling, and betting) in the virtual and real worlds. Prior to focusing on her academic career starting in 2019, she worked as a public health specialist and researcher for more than 10 years with development agencies, such as UNFPA and UNICEF, and academic entities including John Hopkins University.
Dawn Rivers is a recent PhD recipient and an applied anthropologist operating a private business consultancy in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her research interests include alternative forms of work, workplace power relations, “otherness” in the workplace, and independent work. She has published articles in The Anthropology of Work Review and Economic Anthropology.
Helena Moreira Schiel obtained her PhD in Social Anthropology in 2023 from UFAM (Universidade Federal do Amazonas). She is currently an Assistant Professor at UFOPA (Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará). She has fieldwork experience with the Karajá Indians of Central Brazil (Araguaia river), having researched and written on the subjects of interethnic relations, modes of classification, politics, warfare, and material culture. She is now leading indigenous health care projects in collaboration with the Munduruku Indians, and ethno-development initiatives with the Warao, who are Venezuelan refugee Indians, in Santarém. Her main teaching subjects are economic anthropology, political anthropology, kinship relations, and Amerindian mythology.
Samuel Weeks is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He received an MA from the University of Lisbon and a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. During 2017–2018, Dr Weeks was an affiliated researcher at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. His research has been published in Dialectical Anthropology, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Review of Radical Political Economics, Journal of Language and Politics, among others.
- Prelims
- Introduction: Anthropological Perspectives on Health, Money, Commerce, and Wealth
- Distressed in Hope: School Fees and the Structural Shaping of Health in Upper West Ghana
- In Pursuit of Stability? An Ethnographic Inquiry of Cryptocurrency Trading in Istanbul
- When Face Is Your FICO Score: Informal Behaviors of a Microlender in a Bangkok Neighborhood
- An Anthropologist Goes Offshore, or, Creating an Actor-Network Among Finance Elites
- Doing Business in a Pandemic: Agency and Resilience Among US Nonemployer Businesses
- People, Objects, and Money: Some Notes on the Introduction and Circulation of Objects Among the Xambioá (Central Brazil)
- A Proposal to Eliminate Poverty by Including the Poor as Shareholders in Wealth Producing Companies