Variations of order in a new market context -- Changing meaning of bazaar trade in Central Asia -- Organizing collectively : founding a trade union at Dordoi Bazaar -- Adapting to bazaar ownership : business as diplomacy -- Centralizing to modernize : municipal law and order at Osh Bazaar --...

The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America: Informality, Materiality and Gender in Commerce' advances comparative knowledge and theoretical reflections on urban popular economies in Latin America by going beyond the lenses of so-called informal and street economies. It develops a...

Originally published in 1979, Clifford Geertz’s essay on the Moroccan bazaar is a classic ethnographic account of the interplay of economic, social, and religious lives in the bustle of transaction. Drawing on years of fieldwork in the Middle Atlas town of Sefrou, Geertz explores how actors...

"Translocality, Entrepreneurship and Middle Class across Eurasia is a comprehensive, multi-sited ethnography about the unfolding of capitalism across Eurasia and the advent of a new middle class since the late Soviet era. Based on extensive fieldwork, the book follows three generations of ethnic...

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Women -- 1. Domesticating the Market, Marketing the Domestic -- 2. Feeding, Drinking, and Eating: Market Women Restructuring Gender -- 3. Constructing Moral Reputation: The Case of Mama Njau -- 4. From Captured...