on the American Anthropological Association (AAA) website. From the AAA blog:
The economic crisis issue includes:
- Gillian Tett: Icebergs and Ideologies: How Information Flows Fuelled the Financial Crisis
- Aaron Pitluck: Ethnography Meets Econometrics: Exploring Daily Work Practices that Lead to Financial Crises
- Tara Schwegler: The Global Crisis of Economic Meaning
- Edward F Fischer: Capitalism in Context: Seeing Beyond the “Free” Market
- Richard Robbins: Anthropologizing Economics: Lessons from the Latest Crisis
- Sarah Tobin: Islamic Banking in the Global Financial Crisis: The Value of “Banking Rightly”
- Laura Nelson: Foreshadowing Global Bankruptcy: South Korea’s Credit Card Debacle
- Emma Gilberthorpe & Paul Sillitoe: A Failure of Social Capital: Lessons from Papua New Guinea in the Current Economic Crisis
- Kathi Kitner & Renee Kuriyan: The Moral Minority: Cultural Politics of Consumption in a Global Downturn
- Jane Guyer: Confusion and Silence: Public Rhetoric in Monetarist Crises, from Nigeria to the US
All the articles are available here.