Individual and social adaptions to human vulnerability / edited by Donald C. Wood.

Sponsored by the AAA Section Society for Economic Anthropology.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 two leading articles both take up the issue of microfinance; Daniel Murphy examines the influences of this in the lives of pastoralists in Mongolia, and Megan Hinrichsen explores related processes among vendors in Quito, Ecuador. Next, Elena Sischarenco looks at ways of dealing with vulnerability in the northern Italian construction industry. Sarah Lyon investigates smallholders experiences with, and adaptations to, the coffee rust disaster in Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as the functions of fair trade organizations. Rounding out the first half of the volume is Raja Swamy analysis of post-tsunami reconstruction in Tamil Nadu, India.€ The second half starts with Janneke Verheijen investigation of women survival strategies in rural Malawi, southeast Africa, and Lai Wo study of intimate relationships and transactions between Western men and Southeast Asian women in Hong Kong. Courtney Lewis explores political and economic sovereignty among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina, USA. Finally, the volume turns to the past with Kari Henquinet examination of the evolution of American faith-based overseas development aid projects in the 20th century, and with Serge Svizzero and Clement Tisdell analysis of Early Bronze Age desert kite use for trapping gazelles in parts of Southwest Asia.€ Ultimately, it is hoped that this and other scholarly investigations into human vulnerability will lead to better preventive and curative measures, for an imperfect world.

Fornt Cover; Individual and Social Adaptations to Human Vulnerability; Copyright Page; Contents; About the Authors; Introduction: Individual and Social Adaptations to Vulnerability; References; "We're Living from Loan-to-Loan": Pastoral Vulnerability and the cashmere-debt Cycle in Mongolia; Introduction; Literature and Background; Methods and Research Sites; Pastoral Production and Vulnerability; Microfinance and the Cashmere-debt Cycle; Discussion and Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References

Living within the Narrative of Microfinance: Vulnerability, Well-intentioned Debt, and the Individualization of Social Prob ... Introduction; Methods; Addressing Vulnerability in Context; The Emergence of the Narrative of Microfinance in Quito; Situating the Narrative: Microfinance's Flexible Role in Post-World War II Development Theory; Feminization and Individualization in the Narrative of Microfinance; Living the Narrative of Microfinance in Quito; Vulnerabilities in Well-intentioned Debt; Conclusion; References

Being an Entrepreneur and Feeling Vulnerable: Encountering Fragility in the Construction Business in the North of ItalyIntroduction; " & as in the fall on the trees the leaves"; Encountering Fragility and Unpredictability; Financial Crisis and/or Systemic Crisis; Fragility as a Consequence of Corruption and Political Interests; Discourses in a Time of Crisis; Fears and Fragilities at the Association; Sense of Powerlessness; Fragility of Negotiations; Why to Continue in Such a Risky Business?; Trust as a Way of Facing Unpredictability; Conclusion; Notes; References

Coping with Coffee Rust in Oaxaca, Mexico: Vulnerability and the Impact of Fair Trade on Smallholders' Adaptive CapacityIntroduction; Vulnerability, Climate Change, and Coping Mechanisms; Fair Trade and Coffee Producer Organizations; The Context of Coffee Production in Oaxaca; Coffee Rust and Climate Change; Research Methods; Coffee Producer Responses to the Rust Outbreak; Treating with Fungicides; Pruning; Replanting; Potential Long-term Responses; Fair Trade Organizations, Vulnerability, and Coping Mechanisms; Conclusion; Notes; References

Fishers, Vulnerability, and the Political Economy of Dispossession and Reconstruction in Post-Tsunami Tamil NaduIntroduction; Defining Vulnerable Humanitarian Subjects; Vulnerability and Relocation; GO 25 -- Public-Private Partnership between Government and NGOs; GO 172 -- Relocation as Condition for Housing; Relocation and Vulnerability; Distance; Site; Housing -- Structural Issues; Income/Expenditure/Credit Survey Questionnaire; Vulnerability and Political Economy; Fishers, Development, and Vulnerability; Acknowledgments; References

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