@article{1451715,
      recid = {1451715},
      author = {Fehlings, Susanne,},
      title = {Traders, informal trade and markets between the Caucasus  and China /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xv, 349 pages) :},
      abstract = {Dr. Fehlings' book is an important step towards a  historical economic anthropology of everyday economic  action, because she succeeds excellently in making this  everyday action transparent in its diversity and its  historical plasticity. Werner Plumpe, Professor of Economic  History, Goethe University, Germany Why and how do Georgian  and Chinese traders travel across Eurasia without any  formal institutional support and what consequences are  there of such 'globalization from below' for economy,  markets, sociality and materiality? Susanne Fehlings'  ethnography skilfully explores the structural conditions,  background and everyday lives of such traders and  businessmen, scrutinizes their activities, narratives and  logics of action and offers a rich anthropological  discussion embedded in historical, legal and political  contexts. Lale Yalcn-Heckmann, Docent for Social  Anthropology, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic The  book is about the economic practices of traders and  businesspeople from the Caucasus and China who work in  local bazaars in Tbilisi and Beijing. It describes their  activities, their motivations, their socio-cultural  backgrounds, their work environments, and their  interactions with one another. Contributing to a broader  debate on the nature and role of informal economic  practices in the post-Soviet periphery and processes of  "globalization from below", the book aims at providing a  thick description of the embeddedness of bazaar traders'  economic behaviors and strategies in local and global  political, economic, and cultural contexts, markets and  supply chains. Susanne Fehlings is a Lecturer at Goethe  University Frankfurt am Main and a Senior Researcher at the  Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology,  Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her main interests include  economic anthropology, the anthropology of the state, urban  anthropology and topics related to ethnobotany. Her  regional focus is post-Soviet Eurasia and the South  Caucasus.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1451715},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5205-0},
}