Conceptual colour: race, economic knowledge, and the anthropology of financialization.
Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology,...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 769 - 789 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2026
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