Kirsten W. Endres

Market Frictions

Trade and Urbanization at the Vietnam-China Border

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese border city of Lao Cai.

Produktdetails

• Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781789202441
• ISBN-10: 1789202442
• Artikelnr.: 54617000

Autorenporträt

Kirsten W. Endres is Head of the Research Group The Political and Economic Anthropology of Southeast Asia at the Department Resilience and Transformation in Eurasia of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/S. Her previous publications include Performing the Divine. Mediums, Markets and Modernity in Urban Vietnam (NIAS Press, 2011) and the co-edited volume Traders in Motion. Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace (Cornell University Press, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Language and Translation
Introduction: Market Frictions
Chapter 1. Town
Chapter 2. Market
Chapter 3. Neigboring
Chapter 4. Illegality
Chapter 5. Morality
Chapter 6. Renewal
Epilogue
References
Index