Traders in Motion: Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace Contributor(s): Endres, Kirsten W. (Editor), Leshkowich, Ann Marie (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1501719823 ISBN-13: 9781501719820 Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications OUR PRICE: $128.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Business & Economics | Industries - Retailing - History | Asia - Southeast Asia |
Dewey: 381.109 |
LCCN: 2017042001 |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 7" W x 10" (1.49 lbs) 264 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
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Publisher Description: With essays covering diverse topics, from seafood trade across the Vietnam-China border, to street traders in Hanoi, to gold shops in Ho Chi Minh City, Traders in Motion spans the fields of economic and political anthropology, geography, and sociology to illuminate how Vietnam's rapidly expanding market economy is formed and transformed by everyday interactions among traders, suppliers, customers, family members, neighbors, and officials. The contributions shed light on the micropolitics of local-level economic agency in the paradoxical context of Vietnam's socialist orientation and its contemporary neoliberal economic and social transformation. The essays examine how Vietnamese traders and officials engage in on-the-ground contestations to define space, promote or limit mobility, and establish borders, both physical and conceptual. The contributors show how trading experiences shape individuals' notions of self and personhood, not just as economic actors, but also in terms of gender, region, and ethnicity. Traders in Motion affords rich comparative insight into how markets form and transform and what those changes mean. Contributors: |
Contributor Bio(s): Leshkowich, Ann Marie: - Ann Marie Leshkowich is Professor of Anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross.Endres, Kirsten W.: - Kirsten W. Endres heads the research group Traders, Markets, and the State in Vietnam at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. |