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The book is an introduction to the overlapping subfields of the anthropology of financial markets and the anthropology of money. It is meant for a Romanian audience interested in understanding financial practices and processes taking place after the end of socialism from an anthropological perspective. The book includes a selection of unpublished essays and several articles formerly published in English. It aims both to present a systematic and critical introduction to some of the most recent theories pertaining to the anthropology of money/ financial markets and to illustrate the virtues of ethnographic approaches to postsocialist financial practices. While the first chapter is a critical essay on the state of the two subfields, the following four chapters of the book deal with the issues of local notions of (life) insurance and the social networks through which insurance policies are distributed, indebtedness and its local predicaments during the financial crisis started in 2008, the shifting notions of risk and the financial architecture built to tame it after the subprime mortgage crisis and the Great Recession it triggered, as well as culturally informed practices involving money in several Romanian mutual funds during the postsocialist period.
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The paper has an interdisciplinary approach, leaving the pure economical circumscription through its social, behavioural and adaptive facets. Agricultural cooperatives are capable of responding both to the members’needs, according to their principles and to the researchers projections of sustainable rural development. The involvement of the rural area in the knowledge market is generally wanted. The present paper proves that cooperative structures have a significant role in achieving that goal, under some restrictions. Knowledge transfer isn’t an objective itself, it is a process approached on two sections: for the authorities, the scope of the process should be favoring the sustainable development in the agrifood sector, and for the farmers it helps with the understanding sustainable agriculture as an opportunity of a long term activity. These results can be achieved through medium and large size farmers’ cooperation, capable of engaging the informational resource in the decisional process. For this reason the rural development policies should be differentiated considering the farms’ size.
Political anthropology --- Anthropology --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy.
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