The Globalization and Development Reader builds on the success of From Modernization to Globalization, published by the editors in 2000 and used around the world. It provides an up-to-date primer and key reference for students, scholars, and development practitioners wishing to get up to speed...

"Originating in the sea, especially in the waters surrounding the low-lying islands of the Maldives, Cypraea moneta (sometimes confused with Cypraea annulus) was transported to various parts of Afro-Eurasia in the prehistoric era, and in many cases, it was gradually transformed into a form of...

Introduction : the theoretical background -- Medieval England : the Plantagenet cycle (1150-1485) -- Early modern England : the Tudor-Stuart cycle (1485-1730) -- Medieval France : the Capetian cycle (1150-1450) -- Early modern France : the Valois cycle (1450-1660) -- Rome : the Republican cycle...

Introduction : Filipina migrants and the force of domesticity -- Gender ideologies in the Philippines -- Patriarchy and neoliberalism in the globalization of care -- Gender and communication in transnational migrant families -- The place and placelessness of migrant Filipina domestic workers --...

Introduction / Atreyee Sen and Johan Lindquist -- Exclusively simple : the impact of cashless initiatives on homeless Roma in Denmark / Camilla Ravnbol -- Debt and dirty names : tracing cashlessness and urban marginality in Brazil / Marie Kolling -- 'Debt is what happens, while...' : the...

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...

"This volume presents a global range of ethnographic case studies to explore the ways in which - in the context of the restructuring of industrial work, the ongoing financial crisis, and the surge in unemployment and precarious employment - local and global actors engage with complex social...